multiguttatum, Plectropoma Günther [A.] 1867:600 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866 (pt 3); ref. 1984] Panama. Holotype: BMNH 1866.1.14.3. •Valid as Alphestes multiguttatus (Günther 1867) -- (Heemstra & Randall 1993:22 [ref. 21042], Allen & Robertson 1994:107 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:92 [ref. 23101], Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995:1579 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:275 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:314 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:349 [ref. 24555], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:204 [ref. 25013], Thomson et al. 2000:79 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:126 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:109 [ref. 37547], Craig et al. 2006:327 [ref. 29772], Craig et al. 2011:8 [ref. 31786], Page et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:397 [ref. 34894], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:608 [ref. 34923], Fourriére et al. 2016:444 [ref. 34668], Ma & Craig 2018:454 [ref. 36100], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:306 [ref. 36544], Parenti & Randall 2020:50 [ref. 37354], Love et al. 2021:145 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:195 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:306 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Alphestes multiguttatus (Günther 1867). Epinephelidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to northern Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Cocos Island (Costa Rica) and Malpelo Island (Colombia). Habitat: marine.