taeniops, Serranus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828:370 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 2; ref. 997] Cape Verde Islands. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-6218 (1, dry), 0000-6233 (1), A.7720 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:36 [ref. 19232]. Predated by Serranus taeniops Cuvier in Guérin-Méneville 1827-31, Pl. 27 [ref. 29508]. Species epithet misspelled teniops by Gruvel & Bouyat 1906:Pl. 11, fig. 28 [ref. 30367]. •Valid as Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes 1828) -- (Heemstra 1991:13 [ref. 19323], Smith 1990:695 [ref. 18227], Heemstra & Randall 1993:60 [ref. 21042], Afonso et al. 1999:72 [ref. 25466], Wirtz et al. 2007:29 [ref. 30263], Craig et al. 2011:58 [ref. 31786], Wirtz et al. 2013:122 [ref. 32972], Triay-Portella et al. 2015:165 [ref. 36561], Heemstra & Anderson in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2385 [ref. 34618], Engin et al. 2016:184 [ref. 34718], Vella et al. 2016:1 [ref. 35106], Garcia et al. 2018:962 [ref. 36271], Ma & Craig 2018:455 [ref. 36100], Almeida & Alves 2019:272 [ref. 37509], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36864], Izquierdo-Muñoz & Ramos-Esplá in Stern et al. 2019:437 [ref. 36863], Reiner 2019:167 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:139 [ref. 37515], Parenti & Randall 2020:57 [ref. 37354], Golani 2021:39 [ref. 38303], González-Lorenzo et al. 2021:145 [ref. 38374], Kovačić et al. 2021:77 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:287 [ref. 39448], Carvalho-Filho 2023:114 [ref. 40480], Tiralongo & Spinelli in Langeneck et al. 2023:612 [ref. 40699], Kundu et al. 2024:5 [ref. 40813]). Current status: Valid as Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes 1828). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Morocco south to Angola, including Canary Islands (Spain), Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Principe. Introduced in Brazil (southwestern Atlantic). Habitat: marine.