Rhomboplites aurorubens

ingliseSnout short, lower jaw slightly projecting. Mouth small. Pectoral fins relatively short, not reaching level of anus. Scale rows on back rising obliquely above lateral line. Back and upper sides vermilion, shading to silvery with reddish tinge ventrally, with narrow horizontal yellow lines below the lateral line. The dorsal and caudal fins yellowish; the anal and pelvic fins whitish.

• Mesoprion elegans Poey, 1860
• Centropristes aurorubens Cuvier, 1829
• Romboplites aurorubens (Cuvier, 1829)
• Aprion ariommus Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
• Centropristis aurorubens Cuvier, 1829