aurorubens, Centropristes Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:45 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 3; ref. 4879] Brazil; Martinique Island, West Indies; Santo Domingo. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-0915 (2) Santo Domingo, 0000-6982 (2) Martinique, 0000-7725 (1) Brazil. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1981:7 [ref. 21549]. Original genus should have been Centropristis. •Valid as Lutjanus aurorubens (Cuvier 1829) -- (Herrera 1896:53 [ref. 39336] as aureorubens, Carvalho-Filho 2023:154 [ref. 40480]). •Valid as Rhomboplites aurorubens (Cuvier 1829) -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:342 [ref. 14275], Allen 1985:157 [ref. 6843], Robins & Ray 1986:173 [ref. 23100], Anderson 1987:19 [ref. 13770], Boschung 1992:138 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:356 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:154 [ref. 24474], Aguilera 1998:50 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:255 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:161 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Moore et al. 2003:226 [ref. 27076], Anderson 2003:1504 [ref. 27091], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:83 [ref. 27192] dated 1828, Nelson et al. 2004:143 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:337 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:147 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:52 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:19 [ref. 34324], Spier et al. 2018:12 [ref. 36103], Carneiro et al. 2019:261 [ref. 37250], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:591 [ref. 38945], Damadi et al. 2023:142 [ref. 40426], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:115 [ref. 40726]). Current status: Valid as Rhomboplites aurorubens (Cuvier 1829). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda and North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2016): Vulnerable. Habitat: marine.