vulgaris, Sargus Geoffroy St. Hilaire [E.] 1817:312, Pl. 18 (fig. 2) [Poissons du Nil v. 1 (part 1); ref. 4184] Egypt, eastern Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot & Daget 1972:69 [ref. 20898]. •Valid as Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817) -- (Tortonese 1973:410 [ref. 7192], Bauchot & Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:895 [ref. 13676], Bauchot & Hureau 1990:801 [ref. 18793], Arruda 1997:89 [ref. 24952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:93 [ref. 26753], Falcón et al. 2003:145 [ref. 39343], Golani 2005:43 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:87 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:100 [ref. 30517], Casu et al. 2009:142 [ref. 30209], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:47 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:368 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2016:14 [ref. 34520], Carpenter & Iwatsuki in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2600 [ref. 34618], Golani et al. 2017:529 [ref. 35726], Martins & Carneiro 2018:159 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:557 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:268 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:83 [ref. 36892], Bariche & Fricke 2020:91 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:42 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:85 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:55 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:79 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817). Sparidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay south to South Africa, including Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands. Habitat: marine.