guttatus, Mesoprion Steindachner [F.] 1869:149 [Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 6 (no. 19) (for 15 July 1869); ref. 20467] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico. Syntypes: (2) NMW. Species later illustrated and described in more detail in Steindachner 1870:307 [p. 18 of separate], Pl. 8, [ref. 4217]. •Valid as Neomaenis guttatus (Steindachner 1869) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:42 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Lutjanus guttatus (Steindachner 1869) -- (Allen 1985:90 [ref. 6843], Allen & Robertson 1994:138 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:112 [ref. 23101], Allen in Fischer et al. 1995:1239 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:216 [ref. 24545], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:370 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:300 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:120 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:142 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:121 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:382 [ref. 28379], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], McMahan et al. 2013:449 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:147 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:408 [ref. 34894], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Kells et al. 2016:242 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:91 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:305 [ref. 36544], Angulo et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37425], Hernández-Álvarez et al. 2020:62 [ref. 37304], Angulo 2021:7 [ref. 38913], Love et al. 2021:159 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:20 [ref. 41326], Angulo et al. 2023:70 [ref. 40676], Page et al. 2023:205 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:362 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus guttatus (Steindachner 1869). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to northern Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: brackish, marine.