seheli, Mugil crenilabis var. Fabricius [J. C.] in Niebuhr (ex Forsskål) 1775:73, xiv [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] [Lohajæ] Al-Luhayya, Yemen, Red Sea; [no specific locality stated] Red Sea. Holotype (unique): ?ZMUC P71373 (dry skin). Type catalog: Nielsen 1974:73 [ref. 9588]. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:21 [ref. 30182]. Possible holotype figured in Klausewitz & Nielsen 1965:26, Pl. 37 [ref. 20847] as tade. Neotype, as BMNH 1969.2.8.2, designated by Thomson 1997:506 [ref. 23428] because of uncertainty of holotype. •Valid as Mugil seheli Forsskål 1775 -- (Walbaum 1792:227 [4572]). •Valid as Valamugil seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:62 [ref. 19756], Dor 1984:193 [ref. 29757], Yoshino & Senou in Masuda et al. 1984:120 [ref. 6441], Smith & Smith 1986:719 [ref. 5717], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:463 [ref. 25598], Winterbottom et al. 1989:50 [ref. 13251] with question, Allen 1991:148 [ref. 21090], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:902 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:126 [ref. 23448], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:204 [ref. 27969], Thomson 1997:505 [ref. 23428], Larson & Williams 1997:365 [ref. 23967], Carpenter et al. 1997:205 [ref. 23922], Keith et al. 1999:90 [ref. 24548], Harrison & Senou 1999:2107 [ref. 24780], Johnson 1999:742 [ref. 25471], Hutchins 2001:38 [ref. 25847], Myers & Donaldson 2003:614 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3327 [ref. 27945], Mundy 2005:279 [ref. 28/379], Hoese & Bray 2006:685 [ref. 29000], Larson et al. 2013:59 [ref. 32988]). •Valid as Osteomugil seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Ali et al. 2018:341 [ref. 36183]). •Valid as Moolgarda seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Randall 1995:237 [ref. 22896], Myers 1999:71 [ref. 23965], Chang et al. 1999:39 [ref. 24091], Fricke 1999:360 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:541 [ref. 25086], Senou in Randall & Lim 2000:625 [ref. 25122], Randall & Earle 2000:14 [ref. 25806], Sakai et al. 2001:104 [ref. 25693], Nakabo 2002:541 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:44 [ref. 26830] with genus as Moolgardia, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S113 [ref. 27377], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:23 [ref. 27510], Randall 2005:77 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:30 [ref. 30213], Shibukawa 2009:44 [ref. 30449], Motomura et al. 2010:80 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:369 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:157 [ref. 31980], Kottelat 2013:280 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:36 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:296 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:13 [ref. 35333], Shen & Durand 2016:79 [ref 35591], Durand & Whitfield 2016:109 [ref. 35590] with author as Forsskål 1775, Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Fricke et al. 2018:95 [ref. 35805], Suresh et al. 2018:151 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:85 [ref. 37020], Psomadakis et al. 2020:520 [ref. 37272], Toyama et al. 2021:59 [ref. 38509]). •Valid as Moolgarda seheli (Fabricius 1775) -- (Fricke 2008:21 [ref. 30182], Hasan et al. 2020:138 [ref. 37945], Taki et al. 2021:315 [ref. 39830], Yoshigou 2022:14 [ref. 39640] as Moolgarda cf. seheli, Ghasamzadeh 2022:322 [ref. 39712], Furuhashi et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40140]). •Valid as Crenimugil seheli (Forsskål 1775) -- (Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Durand & Borsa 2015:268 [ref. 34115], Durand 2016:30 [ref. 35589], Arndt & Fricke 2019:21 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:75 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:65 [ref. 36871], Kim et al. 2020:77 [ref. 39118], Mochizuki et al. 2022:21 [ref. 39612], Zajonz et al. 2022:51 [ref. 40522], Jamandre 2023:171 [ref. 40455]). •Valid as Crenimugil seheli (Fabricius 1775) -- (Hasan et al. 2023:2212 [ref. 40412]). Current status: Valid as Crenimugil seheli (Fabricius 1775). Mugilidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Korea and Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan), south to Western Australia and Norfolk Island (Australia). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.