virginicus, Sparus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:281 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] South America. No types known. See Goode & Bean 1885:199-200 [ref. 1841]. Spelled virginius by Bloch & Schneider 1801:274 [ref. 471], corrected in Corrigenda, p. 576. •Valid as Anisotremus virginicus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:352 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:178 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:140 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:329 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:180 [ref. 24474], Aguilera 1998:50 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:331 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:129 [ref. 25640], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:161 [ref. 27754], Rocha & Rosa 2001:990 [ref. 25909], Lindeman & Toxey 2003:1530 [ref. 27094], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:84 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:33 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:144 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:365 [ref. 28815], Tavera et al. 2011:322 [ref. 31319], Tavera et al. 2012:6 [ref. 32469], Page et al. 2013:148 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:53 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34961], Marceniuk et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35324], Spier et al. 2018:12 [ref. 36103], Parenti 2019:153 [ref. 37021], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:80 [ref. 38844], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:563 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:162 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:206 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Anisotremus virginicus (Linnaeus 1758). Haemulidae: Haemulinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Bahamas, Florida (U.S.A.), and Yucatan (Mexico) south to Brazil Habitat: marine.