erythrinus, Sparus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:279 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea; America. No types known. Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:41 [ref. 24101], but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Misspelled erhitrinus by Cabrera y Corro, Pérez & Hänseler 1817:5 [ref. 17319], see Graells 1887:179 [ref. 30438]. •Valid as Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Herrera 1896:54 [ref. 39336], Tortonese 1973:411 [ref. 7192], Bauchot & Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:901 [ref. 13676], Bauchot & Hureau 1990:805 [ref. 18793], Arruda 1997:90 [ref. 24952], Fricke 1999:40 [ref. 24101], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:95 [ref. 26753], Parin 2003:S11 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:44 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:26 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:88 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:101 [ref. 30517], Fricke 2008:41 [ref. 30182], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:171 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:48 [ref. 36649], Wirtz et al. 2013:126 [ref. 32972], Fricke et al. 2014:1 [ref. 33592], Parin et al. 2014:370 [ref. 33547], Carpenter & Iwatsuki in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2607 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:146 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:557 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:271 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:66 [ref. 36892], Bariche & Fricke 2020:92 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:42 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:86 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:56 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:80 [ref. 39014], Tutman et al. 2021:143 [ref. 39168], Fermon et al. 2022:281 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus 1758). Sparidae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Guinea-Bissau, including Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal) and Canary Islands (Spain). Habitat: brackish, marine.