cervinus, Charax Lowe [R. T.] 1838:177 [Transactions of the Zoological Society of London v. 2 (pt 3, art. 14); ref. 2831] Lanzarote, Canary Islands [eastern Atlantic]. Neotype: BMNH 1859.5.4.4. Neotype designated by Bauchot & Daget 1971:321 [ref. 23129]. •Valid as Diplodus cervinus (Lowe 1838), subspecies cervinus (Lowe 1838) -- (Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:92 [ref. 26753], Falcón et al. 2003:145 [ref. 39343], Casu et al. 2009:142 [ref. 30209], Carpenter & Iwatsuki in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2593 [ref. 34618]). •Valid as Diplodus cervinus (Lowe 1838) -- (Tortonese 1973:409 [ref. 7192], Bauchot & Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:892 [ref. 13676], Bauchot & Hureau 1990:796 [ref. 18793], Randall 1995:225 [ref. 22896], Arruda 1997:89 [ref. 24952], Fricke 1999:293 [ref. 24106], Golani 2005:42 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:87 [ref. 29533], Fricke et al. 2016:13 [ref. 34520], Golani et al. 2017:529 [ref. 35726] hybrid with D. cervinus x D. levantinus, also valid, Martins & Carneiro 2018:153 [ref. 36550], Carneiro et al. 2019:266 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:80 [ref. 36892], Bariche & Fricke 2020:91 [ref. 37515], Bañón & Maño 2021:85 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:54 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:79 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:281 [ref. 39448], Azzola et al. 2024:4 [ref. 40957]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Diplodus cervinus (Lowe 1838). Sparidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay south to South Africa, including Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain) and Cape Verde Islands. Habitat: marine.