Pempheris malabarica

Randall, John E., Victor, Benjamin C., Alpermann, Tilman J., Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Mal, Ahmad O., Satapoomin, Ukkrit & Bineesh, K. K., 2014, Rebuttal to Koeda et al. (2014) on the Red Sea fishes of the perciform genus Pempheris, Zootaxa 3887 (3), pp. 377-392 : 387

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.3.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:63968BBF-9C06-4A74-8093-0165770A6325
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5694368
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D887FD-FF92-FFC7-FF76-FAE2FE733A27
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pempheris malabarica
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Status of Pempheris malabarica View in CoL

Koeda et al. (2014) regarded Pempheris malabarica Cuvier as a junior synonym of P. molucca Cuvier. As discussed by Randall & Bineesh (2014), the name P. molucca is based on a fanciful painting in Renard from 1719 and unavailable as a nomen dubium. Pempheris malabarica is a valid species, easily distinguished by having 42 to 48 anal soft rays and 65 to 75 lateral-line scales, the highest for these two counts of Indian Ocean species of the genus (see Tables 1 and 3).