Leiognathus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1802:448 Masc. Leiognathus argenteus Lacepède 1802 (= Scomber edentulus Bloch 1785). Type by monotypy. L. argenteus Lacepède is an unneeded substitute for S. edentulus Bloch. Liognathus Agassiz 1846:203, 212 [ref. 64] is an unjustified emendation (see Briggs 1961:162 [ref. 13439]). •Valid as Leiognathus Lacepède 1802 -- (Tortonese 1973:390 [ref. 7192], Uyeno & Yabumoto in Masuda et al. 1984:158 [ref. 6441], James 1985:397 [ref. 12861], Jones 1985:571 [ref. 21842], Roux in Whitehead et al. 1986:856 [ref. 13676], Smith 1986:620 [ref. 5712], Kottelat 1989:17 [ref. 13605], Ataur Rahman 1989:335 [ref. 24860], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:390 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:135 [ref. 21090], Woodland et al. 2001:2794 [ref. 26095], Kimura et al. 2003:221 [ref. 27212], Ataur Rahman 2003:366 [ref. 31338], Ikejima et al. 2004:904 [ref. 27755], Sparks & Dunlap 2004:2 [ref. 27928], Kimura et al. 2005:275 [ref. 28424], Hoese & Bray 2006:1178 [ref. 29000], Chakrabarty & Sparks 2008:3 [ref. 29788] wrongly with equulus (Forsskål 1775) as type species, Chakrabarty et al. 2010:114 [ref. 31090], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:46 [ref. 36649], Abraham et al. 2011:6 [ref. 31311], Kottelat 2013:339 [ref. 32989], Sparks & Chakrabarty 2015:181 [ref. 33740], Motomura et al. 2017:124 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:191 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:88 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Leiognathus Lacepède 1802. Leiognathidae: Leiognathinae.