dentex, Sparus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:281 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. No types known. •Valid as Dentex dentex (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Tortonese 1973:407 [ref. 7192], Bauchot & Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:887 [ref. 13676], Bauchot & Hureau 1990:793 [ref. 18793], Arruda 1997:89 [ref. 24952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:89 [ref. 26753], Parin 2003:S10 [ref. 28536], Palma & Andrade 2004:449 [ref. 27717], Golani 2005:42 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:86 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:98 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:47 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:367 [ref. 33547], Carpenter & Iwatsuki in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2587 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:142 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:264 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:60 [ref. 36892], Bariche & Fricke 2020:89 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:42 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:84 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:54 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:79 [ref. 39014], Gus'kov et al. 2022:72 [ref. 39564]). Current status: Valid as Dentex dentex (Linnaeus 1758). Sparidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Mauritania, including Azores and Madeira. Habitat: brackish, marine.