The specific name was derived from the type locality, the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. [details]
The specific name is from the Latin fulgens, meaning shining or glittering, which might refer to the silver white ... [details]
Nomenclature. The three names above were listed as junior synonyms of Heteropriacanthus cruentatus in Starnes ... [details]
Hureau (1973, 1990) listed Serranus rufus Bowdich, 1825 as junior synonym of Priacanthus cruentatus, although it ... [details]