WoRMS taxon details
Lutjanus aratus (Günther, 1864)
276523 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276523)
accepted
Species
Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864 · unaccepted
Prionodes macropus Fowler, 1944 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Report of a collection of fishes made by Messrs. Dow, Godman, and Salvin in Guatemala. Part first. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1864 (pt 1) (art. 3) : 144-154. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lutjanus aratus (Günther, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276523 on 2025-12-15
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864) Günther, A. (1864). Report of a collection of fishes made by Messrs. Dow, Godman, and Salvin in Guatemala. Part first. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1864 (pt 1) (art. 3) : 144-154. [details]
original description (of Prionodes macropus Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
original description (of Prionodes macropus Fowler, 1944) Fowler, H. W. (1944). Results of the fifth George Vanderbilt expedition (1941) (Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galápagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific islands). The Fishes. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6: 57-529, Pls. 1-20. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Chirichigno, N.; Cornejo, M. (2001). Catálogo comentado de los peces marinos del Perú. <em>2ª ed. Instituto del Mar de Perú. Publicación Especial. Callao.</em> 314 p. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lutjanus aratus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Prionodes macropus Fowler, 1944)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lutjanus aratus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864)
To FishBase (from synonym Prionodes macropus Fowler, 1944)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Mesoprion aratus Günther, 1864)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
