tigrinus, Holocentrus Bloch [M. E.] 1790:77, Pl. 237 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 4; ref. 469] Indian Ocean [in error]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 165 (lost). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:138 [ref. 24282]. On p. 59 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 7 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Serranus tigrinus (Bloch 1790) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:139 [ref. 23100], Bullock & Smith 1991:77 [ref. 36591], Cervigón 1991:365 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:436 [ref. 23827], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:219 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:158 [ref. 27754], Rojas M. & Pequeño 2001:166 [ref. 25813], Collette et al. 2003:107 [ref. 26784], Heemstra et al. 2003:1327 [ref. 27060], Smith et al. 2003:26 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:130 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:192 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:133 [ref. 32708], Carvalho-Filho & Ferreira 2013:809 [ref. 33030], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:43 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34961], Iwamoto & Wirtz 2018:35 [ref. 36189], Parenti & Randall 2020:128 [ref. 37354], Robertson et al. 2020:163 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:79 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:71 [ref. 39585], Page et al. 2023:195 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Serranus tigrinus (Bloch 1790). Serranidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: southern Florida (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Venezuela and Curaçao, including Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.