curema, Mugil Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836:87 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 11; ref. 1005] Bahia, Brazil. Lectotype: MNHN A-3638. Paralectotypes: MNHN A-3653 (1) Cuba, ?A-4641 (1, dry) Maracaibo, A-4655 (1, dry) Martinique, A-4671 (1, dry) Martinique. Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1972:689-690 [ref. 21541]. Names in competition were suppressed in Opinion 1787. Lectotype selected by Harrison 1993:145 [ref. 21990]. •Valid as Mugil curema Valenciennes 1836 -- (Branson et al. 1960:220 [ref. 41482], Ovchynnyk 1967:41 [ref. 37559], Álvarez-Lajonchere 1975:9 [ref. 41041], Lee et al. 1980:780 [ref. 22416], Smith 1986:438 [ref. 22186], Ortega & Vari 1986:19 [ref. 9708], Robins & Ray 1986:213 [ref. 23100], Thomson 1986:349 [ref. 6215], Lea et al. 1988 [ref. 21796], Scott & Scott 1988:400 [ref. 25518], Pequeño 1989:63 [ref. 14125], McAllister 1990:155 [ref. 14674], Thomson 1990:859 [ref. 19180], Albaret in Lévêque et al. 1992:782 [ref. 21590], Boschung 1992:153 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:361 [ref. 23827], Gamboa Pérez 1992:327 [ref. 38704], Cervigón 1993:374 [ref. 24474], Allen & Robertson 1994:194 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:138 [ref. 23101], Poll & Gosse 1995:107 [ref. 24781], Harrison in Fischer et al. 1995:1297 [ref. 22830], Mettee et al. 1996:745 [ref. 25836], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:215 [ref. 22947], Murdy et al. 1997:187 [ref. 23144], Thomson 1997:487 [ref. 23428], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:461 [ref. 24023], González Bencomo et al. 1997:159 [ref. 24960], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:876 [ref. 23897], Aguilera 1998:51 [ref. 24221], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:198 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:182 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:163 [ref. 25013], Keith et al. 2000:24 [ref. 24547], Marín 2000:76 [ref. 26252], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:153 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], Lim et al. 2002:70 [ref. 28310], Collette et al. 2003:102 [ref. 26784], Nirchio et al. 2003:113 [ref. 26807], Harrison 2003:1080 [ref. 27016], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:65 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:14 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:97 [ref. 27807], Ibáñez & Gallardo-Cabello 2005:305 [ref. 28373], Love et al. 2005:62 [ref. 37547], Nirchia et al. 2005:107 [ref. 29206], Miller 2006:183 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2006:37 [ref. 30386], Harrison 2007:457 [ref. 30081], Harrison et al. 2007:77 et seq. [ref. 29185], Wirtz et al. 2007:7, 27 [ref. 30263], García-Hernández et al. 2009:92 [ref. 37265], Matamoros et al. 2009:19 [ref. 31241], Minckley & Marsh 2009:274 [ref. 31114], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Ibáñez et al. 2011:386 [ref. 31203], Koerber 2011:9 [ref. 31122], Durand et al. 2012:692 [ref. 32366], Trape et al. 2012:126 [ref. 31792], Angulo et al. 2013:1003 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:262 [ref. 37503], McMahan et al. 2013:446 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:99 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:120 [ref. 32972], Barriga Salazar 2014:118 [ref. 35745], Catelani et al. 2014:932 [ref. 37496], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:30 [ref. 33341], Alvarez-Lajonchere & Alvarez-Lajonchere Ponce de León 2015:48 [ref. 34139], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:406 [ref. 34894], Menezes et al. 2015:17 [ref. 33678], Mirande & Koerber 2015:55 [ref. 35117], Schmidt & McMullin 2015:4 [ref. 36603], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Durand 2016:32 [ref. 35589], Durand & Whitfield 2016:103 [ref. 35590], Fourriére et al. 2016:442 [ref. 34668], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34871], Harrison 2016:2107 [ref. 34599], Costa et al. 2017:45 [ref. 35684], Marceniuk et al. 2017:41 [ref. 35324], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:89 [ref. 35859], Robins et al. 2018:182 [ref. 35886], Robins et al. 2018:182 [ref. 35886] dated 1835 with parentheses, Spier et al. 2018:15 [ref. 36103], Almeida & Alves 2019:271 [ref. 37509], Britzke et al. 2019:397 [ref. 36980], González-Murcia et al. 2019:294 [ref. 36544], Reiner 2019:129 [ref. 38139], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], López-Segovia et al. 2020:111 [ref. 38151], Neves et al. 2020:[7] [ref. 37442], Neves et al. 2020:[6] 168 [ref. 38248], Robertson et al. 2020:159 [ref. 38098], Caires in Marceniuk et al. 2021:270 [ref. 38945], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:70 [ref. 39585], Fermon et al. 2022:272 [ref. 39448], Ibañez et al. 2022: 3 [ref. 39302], Koerber et al. 2022:79 [ref. 39235], Angulo et al. 2023:67 [ref. 40676], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Barrientos et al. 2023:274 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:199 [ref. 40480], Ceríaco et al. 2023:33 [ref. 40710], Page et al. 2023:151 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:9 [ref. 40981], Vieira et al. 2023:19 [ref. 40759], Quintana 2024:6 [ref. 41186]). Current status: Valid as Mugil curema Valenciennes 1836. Mugilidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to southern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Senegal south to Namibia, including São Tomé and Principe. Eastern Pacific records based on Mugil setosus Gilbert 1892 (see ref. 36980). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.