colorado, Lutjanus Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:351 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 4 (no. 237); ref. 2470] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico. Syntypes: ?BMNH 1895.5.27.24-26 (3); USNM 28261 (1), 28305 (1), 28383 [not 28283] (1), 28386 (1). •Valid as Neomaenis colorado (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:42 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Lutjanus colorado Jordan & Gilbert 1882 -- (Villa 1982:172 [ref. 36708], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:215 [ref. 9277], Allen 1985:71 [ref. 6843], Allen & Robertson 1994:138 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:110 [ref. 23101], Allen in Fischer et al. 1995:1238 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:215 [ref. 24545], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:369 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:299 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:119 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:142 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:121 [ref. 37547], Miller 2006:341 [ref. 28615], Angulo et al. 2013:1000 [ref. 33194], McMahan et al. 2013:449 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:147 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:408 [ref. 34894], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Kells et al. 2016:242 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:91 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:304 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:159 [ref. 39279], Angulo et al. 2023:69 [ref. 40676], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus colorado Jordan & Gilbert 1882. Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.