philadelphica, Perca Linnaeus [C.] 1758:291 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] America. Holotype: Linn. Soc. Lond. 156 (left half-skin). Type catalog: Goode & Bean 1885:202 [ref. 1841], Wheeler 1985:47-48 [ref. 20705]. •Valid as Centropristis philadelphica (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Bortone 1977:23 [ref. 7059], Robins & Ray 1986:137 [ref. 23100], Bullock & Smith 1991:37 [ref. 36591], Boschung 1992:104 [ref. 23239], Heemstra et al. 2003:1326 [ref. 27060], Nelson et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:134 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32708], Parenti & Randall 2020:110 [ref. 37354], Bagley et al. 2023:322 [ref. 41241], Page et al. 2023:193 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Centropristis philadelphica (Linnaeus 1758). Serranidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina south to Florida (U.S.A.), and northern Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: marine.