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Species related to Malacanthus plumieri: [ 5 ] records

oblongus, Sparus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Parra) 1801:283 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Locality not stated [Havana, Cuba]. No types known. Based on the 'Matejuerlo blanco' of Parra 1787:22, Pl. 13 (fig. 1). •Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Current status: Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Malacanthidae. Habitat: marine.

trachinus, Malacanthus Valenciennes [A.] 1841:no page number, Pl. 90 (fig. 3) [Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation; ref. 17868] Martinique Island, West Indies. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:35-36 [ref. 15502]. •Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Current status: Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Malacanthidae. Habitat: marine.

plumieri, Coryphaena Bloch [M. E.] 1786:146, Pl. 175 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 2; ref. 465] Antilles. No types known. Based on Plumier drawing. Spelled plümieri once in text, plumieri on plate. First reviser not researched. On p. 119 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 5 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786) -- (Dooley 1978:55 [ref. 5499], Robins & Ray 1986:155 [ref. 23100], Dooley 1990:720 [ref. 18458], Boschung 1992:128 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:358 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:41 [ref. 24474], Aguilera 1998:49 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:229 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:159 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1644 [ref. 25634], Rocha & Rosa 2001:990 [ref. 25909], Collette et al. 2003:109 [ref. 26784], Dooley 2003:1411 [ref. 27086], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:79 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:30 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:139 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:250 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:143 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:47 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:7 [ref. 33516], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:159 [ref. 37485], Pinheiro et al. 2015:17 [ref. 34324], Dooley in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2438 [ref. 34618], Robertson et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34961], Spier et al. 2018:10 [ref. 36103], Robertson et al. 2020:158 [ref. 38098], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:559 [ref. 38945], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:80 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:73 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:131 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Malacanthidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda and Bahamas south to Uruguay, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; southern-central Atlantic: Ascension Island. Habitat: marine.

tropidolepis, Dikellorhynchus Berry [F. H.] 1958:117, Figs. 1-6 [Copeia 1958 (no. 2); ref. 12047] About 96 miles east of Cape Lookout Light, North Carolina, about 34°28.5'N, 74°38.5'W, bottom depth 1800 fathoms (stomach content). Holotype: USNM 158376. Paratypes: UF 232071 [ex UMML 32071, ex TABL] (1, c&s), USNM 158377 (1, c&s). •Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786) -- (Dooley 1978:56 [ref. 5499]). Current status: Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Malacanthidae. Habitat: marine.

opistoculus, Malacanthus plumieri var. Borodin [N. A.] 1928:22 [Bulletin Vanderbilt Oceanographic Museum v. 1 (art. 1); ref. 526] No locality given. Holotype: VMM 421 (not found in 1996). •Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Current status: Synonym of Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch 1786). Malacanthidae. Habitat: marine.