Lutjanus peru (Nichols & Murphy, 1922)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 159

Lutjanus peru (Nichols & Murphy, 1922) .

Pacific Red Snapper. To 99.2 cm (39 in) TL ( Rocha-Olivares 1998). La Jolla, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Watson and Brogan in Moser 1996) to Huermey, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including Islas Galápagos ( McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010), and throughout Gulf of California ( Allen 1985). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 18 m (60 ft) to at least 91 m (300 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.).