phoebe, Serranus Poey [F.] 1851:[55, 59], Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 1; ref. 3497] Cuba. Syntypes: MCZ 26949 (1), 31437 (1). Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:193 [ref. 22926]. Name dates from plate (Nov. 1851); text published Apr. 1852. •Valid as Serranus phoebe Poey 1851 -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:309 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:139 [ref. 23100], Bullock & Smith 1991:69 [ref. 36591], Cervigón 1991:363 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:109 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:436 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:585 [ref. 16204] as phobe, Aguilera 1998:48 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:219 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:158 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1644 [ref. 25634], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], Heemstra et al. 2003:1327 [ref. 27060], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:77 [ref. 27192], Bunkley-Williams & Williams 2004:106 [ref. 27795], Nelson et al. 2004:129 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:189 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:133 [ref. 32708], Carvalho-Filho & Ferreira 2013:809 [ref. 33030], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:155 [ref. 37485], Pinheiro et al. 2015:13 [ref. 34324], Iwamoto & Wirtz 2018:35 [ref. 36189], Parenti & Randall 2020:126 [ref. 37354], Robertson et al. 2020:162 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:538 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:127 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:195 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Serranus phoebe Poey 1851. Serranidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.