atrobranchus, Centropristes Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:45 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 3; ref. 4879] Brazil. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-6980. Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1984:12 [ref. 19232]. Original genus should have been Centropristis. •Valid as Serranus atrobranchus (Cuvier 1829) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:140 [ref. 23100], Bullock & Smith 1991:65 [ref. 36591], Cervigón 1991:359 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:109 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:436 [ref. 23827], Aguilera 1998:48 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:267 [ref. 24550], Rojas M. & Pequeño 2001:165 [ref. 25813], Heemstra et al. 2003:1327 [ref. 27060], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:77 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:129 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:184 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:133 [ref. 32708], Carvalho-Filho & Ferreira 2013:809 [ref. 33030], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:154 [ref. 37485], Iwamoto & Wirtz 2018:35 [ref 36189], Parenti & Randall 2020:123 [ref. 37354], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:535 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:127 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Serranus atrobranchus (Cuvier 1829). Serranidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.