hepatus, Labrus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:282 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea. No types known. •Valid as Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Herrera 1896:52 [ref. 39336], Tortonese 1973:356 [ref. 7192], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:791 [ref. 13676], Klausewitz 1989:261 [ref. 13650], Smith 1990:705 [ref. 18227], Rojas M. & Pequeño 2001:166 [ref. 25813], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:77 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:37 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:80 [ref. 29533], Fricke 2008:29 [ref. 30182], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:42 [ref. 36649], Wirtz & Iwamoto 2016:192 [ref. 34418] Heemstra & Anderson in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2410 [ref. 34618], Iwamoto & Wirtz 2018:13 [ref. 36189], Martins & Carneiro 2018:126 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:246 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36864], Bariche & Fricke 2020:88 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:41 [ref. 37519], Parenti & Randall 2020:123 [ref. 37354], Golani 2021:42 [ref. 38303], González-Lorenzo et al. 2021:143 [ref. 38374], Kovačić et al. 2021:78 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:286 [ref. 39448] with question). Current status: Valid as Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus 1758). Serranidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Senegal, including Canary Islands (Spain). Habitat: marine.