WoRMS taxon details
Lutjanus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828)
159794 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159794)
accepted
Species
Lutianus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Lutjanus bucanella (Cuvier, 1828) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828 · unaccepted
Mesoprion caudanotatus Poey, 1851 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 455 [details]
page(s): 455 [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: as far north as North Carolina, USA and Bermuda south to Trinidad and northern Brazil; including the Gulf...
Distribution Western Atlantic: as far north as North Carolina, USA and Bermuda south to Trinidad and northern Brazil; including the Gulf of Mexico [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Lutjanus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159794 on 2025-04-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40.
page(s): 455 [details]
basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details]
page(s): 455 [details]
basis of record Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [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 (Bermuda)
Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys
(American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4)
. ASIH, 424 pp. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]





Unreviewed
Distribution Western Atlantic: as far north as North Carolina, USA and Bermuda south to Trinidad and northern Brazil; including the Gulf of Mexico [details]Habitat benthic [details]
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion caudanotatus Poey, 1851)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Lutianus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lutjanus buccanella)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Lutjanus bucanella (Cuvier, 1828))
To FishBase (from synonym Lutianus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828))
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion caudanotatus Poey, 1851)
To FishBase images (Lutjanus buccanella, by Charteris, M.)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 41 proteins)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 41 proteins) (from synonym Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion caudanotatus Poey, 1851)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Lutianus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lutjanus buccanella)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Lutjanus bucanella (Cuvier, 1828))
To FishBase (from synonym Lutianus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828))
To FishBase (from synonym Mesoprion caudanotatus Poey, 1851)
To FishBase images (Lutjanus buccanella, by Charteris, M.)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 41 proteins)
To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 41 proteins) (from synonym Mesoprion buccanella Cuvier, 1828)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS