Species that contain: Lutjanus and argentiventris [ 2 ] records

argentiventris, Mesoprion Peters [W. (C. H.)] 1869:704 [Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1869; ref. 14098] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico (purchased). Holotype (unique): ZMB 7069. •Valid as Neomaenis argentiventris (Peters 1869) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:42 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters 1869) -- (Villa 1982:172 [ref. 36708], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:215 [ref. 9277], Meisler 1985:1064 [ref. 22492], Allen 1985:60 [ref. 6843], Bussing 1987:174 [ref. 22927], Allen & Robertson 1994:138 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:110 [ref. 23101], Allen in Fischer et al. 1995:1237 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:214 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:389 [ref. 24023], Bussing 1998:278 [ref. 24179], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:370 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:300 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:118 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:142 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:121 [ref. 37547], Miller 2006:341 [ref. 28615], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Angulo et al. 2013:1000 [ref. 33194], 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], Fourriére et al. 2016:446 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:242 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:91 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:304 [ref. 36544], Angulo et al. 2020:8 [ref. 37425], Love et al. 2021:159 [ref. 39279], Angulo et al. 2023:69 [ref. 40676], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:361 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters 1869). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to northern Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

lamprurus, Serranus Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:322 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 1 (for 1881); ref. 2471] Tidepool in Panama Bay. Holotype (unique): USNM 29651 (apparently lost). No species of Hypoplectrus occurs in the eastern Pacific, so the identification by Chirichigno and Vélez is in error (email from Ross Robertson 3/31/08). •Synonym of Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters 1869) -- (Meisler 1985:1064 [ref. 22492]). •Incorrectly treated as valid as Hypoplectrus lamprurus (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) in the Serranidae -- (Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:355 [ref. 24555]). Current status: Synonym of Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters 1869). Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.