Genyoroge canina Steindachner, 1869

Rodrigo L. Moura & Kenyon C. Lindeman, 2007, A new species of snapper (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) from Brazil, with comments on the distribution of Lutjanus griseus and L. apodus., Zootaxa 1422, pp. 31-43 : 38

[[ Genyoroge canina Steindachner, 1869 ]]

Allen (1985) did not include L. caninus in his list of nominal species of Lutjanidae; however, Jordan & Fesler (1893) reassigned Genyoroge canina Steindachner, 1869 to Lutjanus and recognized L. caninus as valid. They remarked that it might be a synonym of the West Atlantic cubera snapper, L. cyanopterus based on its deeply emarginate preopercle.

The original description of G. canina was based on three syntypes ( NMW 41312) from Lagos, Nigeria, and Brazil (Steindachner 1869).

Following a remark by Eschmeyer (1998), we concur that Genyoroge canina Steindachner 1869 should be regarded as a junior synonym of the West African species Lutjanus endecacanthus Bleeker, 1863 , which also has a deeply emarginate preopercle.