Chanos Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1803:395 Masc. Chanos arabicus Lacepède 1803 (= Mugil chanos Forsskål 1775). Type by monotypy. Lacepède's arabicus is an unneeded substitute for M. chanos. •Valid as Chanos Lacepède 1803 -- (Arnoult 1984:128 [ref. 6179], Howes 1985 [ref. 5148], Winans 1985 [ref. 6784], Smith 1986:210 [ref. 5712], Kottelat 1989:5 [ref. 13605], Paxton et al. 1989:215 [ref. 12442], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:31 [ref. 23876], Allen 1991:48 [ref. 21090], Stearley & Smith 1993:31 [ref. 26683], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:139 [ref. 24550], Bagarinao 1999:1822 [ref. 24730], Paxton et al. 2006:340 [ref. 28994], Fricke et al. 2009:22 [ref. 30213], Özvarol & Gökoğlu 2012:135 [ref. 31819], Kottelat 2013:64 [ref. 32989], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:860 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:30 [ref. 35254], Motomura et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35490], Esmaeili et al. 2018:10 [ref. 36089], Fricke et al. 2018:58 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:36 [ref. 36273]). Current status: Valid as Chanos Lacepède 1803. Chanidae.