Elops Linnaeus [C.] 1766:518 Masc. Elops saurus Linnaeus 1766. Type by monotypy. Helops Agassiz 1846 is an unjustified emendation. •Valid as Elops Linnaeus 1766 -- (Daget 1984:30 [ref. 6170], Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:21 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:155 [ref. 5712], Paxton et al. 1989:104 [ref. 12442], Smith 1989:962 [ref. 13285], Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1990:88 [ref. 21589], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:28 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:37 [ref. 21090], Gomon et al. 1994:193 [ref. 22532], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:90 [ref. 24550], Smith 1999:1619 [ref. 24661], Smith 2003:679 [ref. 26989], Paxton et al. 2006:221 [ref. 28994], Vreven & De Vos 2007:175 [ref. 30015], Bray 2008:154 [ref. 30620], Minckley & Marsh 2009:71 [ref. 31114], McBride et al. 2010:29 [ref. 30702], Kottelat 2013:33 [ref. 32989], Angulo et al. 2013:989 [ref. 33194], Motomura et al. 2017:27 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:28 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:18 [ref. 36273], Sousa et al. 2022:2 [ref. 40398]). Current status: Valid as Elops Linnaeus 1766. Elopidae.