novemfasciatus, Lutjanus Gill [T. N.] 1862:251 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 14; ref. 4909] Baja California, Mexico. Syntypes: USNM 4010 (2). •Valid as Neomaenis novemfasciatus (Gill 1862) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:43 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Lutjanus novemfasciatus Gill 1862 -- (Allen 1985:108 [ref. 6843], Allen & Robertson 1994:140 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:112 [ref. 23101], Allen in Fischer et al. 1995:1242 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:217 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:393 [ref. 24023], Bussing 1998:280 [ref. 24179], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:370 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:299 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:119 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:143 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:121 [ref. 37547], Miller 2006:342 [ref. 28615], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Angulo et al. 2013:1001 [ref. 33194], 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], Walker et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37499], Angulo 2021:15 [ref. 38913], Love et al. 2021:159 [ref. 39279], Angulo et al. 2023:70 [ref. 40676], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:363 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Lutjanus novemfasciatus Gill 1862. Lutjanidae: Lutjaninae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: central California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.