cyanopterus, Mesoprion Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:472 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Brazil. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-8387. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:14 [ref. 21549]. •Valid as Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier 1828) -- (Villa 1982:172 [ref. 36708], Allen 1985:72 [ref. 6843], Robins & Ray 1986:172 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:387 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:150 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:137 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:352 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:135 [ref. 24474], Murdy et al. 1997:236 [ref. 23144], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:301 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:252 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:161 [ref. 27754], Rocha & Rosa 2001:990 [ref. 25909], Anderson 2003:1493 [ref. 27091], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:82 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:32 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:142 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:327 [ref. 28815], Moura & Lindeman 2007:38 [ref. 29018], Page et al. 2013:147 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:51 [ref. 33341], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Spier et al. 2018:12 [ref. 36103], Carneiro et al. 2019:261 [ref. 37250], Robertson et al. 2020:158 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:582 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:80 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:70 [ref. 39585], Angulo et al. 2023:69 [ref. 40676], Carvalho-Filho 2023:155 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier 1828). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to Paraná (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; northeastern Atlantic: Azores. Habitat: brackish, marine.