Chelon Artedi [P.] in Röse 1793:118 Masc. Mugil chelo Cuvier 1829. Type by subsequent designation. Type species designated (though tentatively) by Jordan 1917:52 [ref. 2407]. We give authorship to Artedi in Röse; others treat Röse as author. •Valid as Chelon Artedi 1793 -- (Trewavas 1973:568 [ref. 7201], Ben-Tuvia in Whitehead et al. 1986:1198 [ref. 13677], Thomson 1986:344 [ref. 6215], Senou et al. 1996:71 [ref. 23193], Thomson 1997:539 [ref. 23428], Harrison 2003:15 [ref. 27341], Parin 2003:S15 [ref. 28536], Harrison 2007:463 [ref. 30081], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:464 [ref. 29996], Aurelle et al. 2008:32 [ref. 31239], Shibukawa 2009:42 [ref. 30449], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:51 [ref. 36649], Trape et al. 2012:125 [ref. 31792], Durand et al. 2012:691 [ref. 32366], Kottelat 2013:276 [ref. 32989], Parin et al. 2014:189 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:892 [ref. 34062], Durand & Borsa 2015:268 [ref. 34115], Xia et al. 2016:170 [ref. 34127] in "Cheloninae", Trnski 2015:943 [ref. 34273], Durand 2016:29 [ref. 35589], Esmaeili et al. 2017:86 [ref. 35254], Motomura et al. 2017:61 [ref. 35490], Esmaeili et al. 2018:68 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:93 [ref. 35805], Deef 2018:107 [ref. 36437], Thieme et al. 2022:6 [ref. 39600]). Current status: Valid as Chelon Artedi 1793. Mugilidae.