tile, Caesio Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:428 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Caroline Islands, western Pacific. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-9317. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:6 [ref. 21549]. Also appeared in Lesson 1830:181 [ref. 2776]. •Valid as Caesio tile Cuvier 1830 -- (Akazaki in Masuda et al. 1984:171 [ref. 6441]). •Valid as Pterocaesio tile (Cuvier 1830) -- (Carpenter 1987:30 [ref. 6430], Carpenter 1988:61 [ref. 9296], Winterbottom et al. 1989:38 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:1887 [ref. 15987], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:xi [ref. 21953], Reader & Leis 1996:358 [ref. 21284], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:298 [ref. 27969] with authors as Cuvier & Valenciennes, Allen 1997:130 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:188 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:188 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:148 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:283 [ref. 24106], Randall 1999:15 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:835 [ref. 25086], Carpenter in Randall & Lim 2000:618 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:258 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:14 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:103 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:263 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Carpenter 2001:2940 [ref. 26100], Nakabo 2002:835 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:39 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:627 [ref. 27495], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:92 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:17 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3321 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:207 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:262 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1207 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:64 [ref. 30213], Iwatsuki in Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:147 [ref. 31128], Motomura et al. 2010:121 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:467 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:260 [ref. 32706], Holleman et al. 2013:270 [ref. 32876], Fricke et al. 2014:90 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:43 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:139 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:203 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:462 [ref. 37272], Durville et al. 2021:312 [ref. 38802], Carpenter & Holleman 2022:262 [ref. 39754], Dewa et al. 2022:19 [ref. 40001]). Current status: Valid as Pterocaesio tile (Cuvier 1830). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Mozambique Channel, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Kiribati (Line Islands) and Pitcairn Group, north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to off northwestern Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.