guttavarium, Plectropoma Poey [F.] 1852:70 [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 1; ref. 3497] Havana, Cuba. Syntypes: MCZ 9781 (2). Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:194 [ref. 22926]. •Valid as Hypoplectrus guttavarius (Poey 1852) -- (Cervigón 1992:435 [ref. 23827], Domeier 1994:104 [ref. 21359], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:157 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2003:107 [ref. 26784], Heemstra et al. 2003:1366 [ref. 27060], Nelson et al. 2004:128 [ref. 27807], Aguilar-Perera & González-Salas 2010:377 [ref. 30878], Lobel 2011:11 [ref. 31606], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2012:4 [ref. 31860], Page et al. 2013:132 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:40 [ref. 33341], Victor & Marks 2018:13 [ref. 36139], Parenti & Randall 2020:118 [ref. 37354], Robertson et al. 2020:162 [ref. 38098], Puebla et al. 2022:110 [ref. 39011], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:117 [ref. 40726], Page et al. 2023:194 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Hypoplectrus guttavarius (Poey 1852). Serranidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) and Bahamas south to Panama, including Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.