balteatus, Smaris Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:424 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 6; ref. 996] Sri Lanka. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-9312 (4). Type catalog: Bauchot 1973:985, 988 [ref. 21548]. •Valid as Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valciennes 1830) -- (Carpenter 1987:52 [ref. 6430], Carpenter 1988:47 [ref. 9296], Randall 1995:206 [ref. 22896], Reader & Leis 1996:339 [ref. 21284], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:297 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:130 [ref. 23977], Yoshino et al. 1999:57 [ref. 24157], Nakabo 2000:834 [ref. 25086], Carpenter in Randall & Lim 2000:618 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:257 [ref. 25191], Hutchins 2001:34 [ref. 25847], Carpenter 2001:2931 [ref. 26100], Nakabo 2002:834 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:39 [ref. 26830] in Dipterygonatus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S109 [ref. 27377], Peristiwady et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:86 [ref. 27510], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:35 [ref. 27712], Randall 2005:259 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1195 [ref. 29090], Iwatsuki in Iwatsuki & Satapoomin 2009:146 [ref. 31128], Allen & Erdmann 2012:463 [ref. 31980], Holleman et al. 2013:269 [ref. 32876], Larson et al. 2013:129 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:136 [ref. 34464], Fricke et al. 2014:88 [ref. 33932], Motomura et al. 2017:138 [ref. 35490], Bariche & Fricke 2018:79 [ref. 35828], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[21] 259 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:93 [ref. 36273], Bariche & Fricke 2020:126 [ref. 37515], Psomadakis et al. 2020:460 [ref. 37272], Kovačić et al. 2021:66 [ref. 39014], Carpenter & Holleman 2022:258 [ref. 39754]). Current status: Valid as Dipterygonotus balteatus (Valenciennes 1830). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: [Red Sea]; Indo-West Pacific: Aliwal Shoal (South Africa), East Africa, Gulf of Aden and Socotra (Yemen) east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to Taiwan, south to northern Australia; eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.