Region:

Valid: Yes

Type Designation: Clench, 1942

Type: Representation of Lectotype

Type Repository: Seba (1758: pl. 48, fig. 8)

Locality Designation: Vink & Cosel, 1985

Type Locality: St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles.

Notes: Valid at species rank

Subspecies:

• C. amiralis Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.
• C. caracanus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.  
• C. cedonulli Linnaeus, 1767.
• C. dominicanus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.  
• C. grenadensis Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.  
• C. insularis Gmelin, 1791.  
• C. martinicanus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792.