tigris, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833:440 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 9; ref. 1002] San Domingo [Dominican Republic]. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-7178. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:36 [ref. 19232]. •Valid as Mycteroperca tigris (Valenciennes 1833) -- (Bullock & Godcharles 1982:53 [ref. 39762], Robins & Ray 1986:136 [ref. 23100], Dennis & Bright 1988:7 [ref. 39782], Bullock & Smith 1991:147 [ref. 36591], Cervigón 1991:351 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:432 [ref. 23827], Heemstra & Randall 1993:276 [ref. 21042], Grace et al. 1994:41 [ref. 25512], Evseenko 1996:727 [ref. 24666], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:215 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:157 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2003:107 [ref. 26784], Heemstra et al. 2003:1359 [ref. 27060], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:76 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:24 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:128 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:170 [ref. 28815], Craig et al. 2011:320 [ref. 31786], Page et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:41 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:14 [ref. 34324], Robertson et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34961], Ma & Craig 2018:456 [ref. 36100], Parenti & Randall 2020:89 [ref. 37354], Robertson et al. 2020:162 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:526 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:79 [ref. 38844], González-Lorenzo et al. 2021:148 [ref. 38374], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:71 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:121 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Mycteroperca tigris (Valenciennes 1833). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Florida (U.S.A.), Bahamas and Greater Antilles south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Introduced at ?Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.