chrysotaenia, Sphyraena Klunzinger [C. B.] 1884:128, 129, Pl. 9 (fig. 3) [Die Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 2625] Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, Red Sea. Syntypes: SMNS 2073 (4) Kosseir; NMW 77364 (3); ZMB 10577 and 10578 (2). Type catalog: Fricke 1992:18 [ref. 20296]. Fricke 2005:60 [ref. 29864] •Synonym of Sphyraena flavicauda Rüppell 1838 -- (de Sylva 1975:84 [ref. 6302], Senou 2001:3691 [ref. 26303], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:374 [ref. 28072], Bray & Hoese 2006:1749 [ref. 29049]). •Questionably a synonym of Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829 -- (Parin 2003:S25 [ref. 28536]). •Synonym of Sphyraena obtusata Cuvier 1829 -- (Bray & Hoese 2006:1751 [ref. 29049]). •Valid as Sphyraena chrysotaenia Klunzinger 1884 -- (Tortonese 1973:566 [ref. 7192], Dor 1984:194 [ref. 29757], Ben-Tuvia in Whitehead et al. 1986:1194 [ref. 13677], de Sylva & Williams 1986:723 [ref. 6301], Goren & Dor 1994:52 [ref. 25356], Larson & Williams 1997:365 [ref. 23967], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Corsini & Economidis 1999:197 [ref. 24060], Massutí et al. 2001:98 [ref. 26220], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:138 [ref. 26753], Kara & Bourehail 2003:59 [ref. 27026], Golani 2005:58 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:109 [ref. 29533], Pastore 2009:1299 [ref. 30405], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:68 [ref. 36649], Abdussamad et al. 2015:5 [ref. 33861], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:142 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 17 [ref. 38321], Golani 2021:81 [ref. 38303], Dimitriadis et al. 2023:2 [ref. 40076]). •Synonym of Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874 -- (Doiuchi & Nakabo 2005:145 [ref. 28229], Parin et al. 2014:507 [ref. 33547], Golani & Fricke 2018:121 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:116 [ref. 37020]). Current status: Synonym of Sphyraena pinguis Günther 1874. Sphyraenidae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, South Africa, Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to western India; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant) (if valid). Habitat: marine.