intermedius, Saurus Spix [J. B. von] & Agassiz [L.] 1829:81, Pl. 44 [Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam; ref. 13] Off northeastern Brazil, 0°01'48.00"S, 44°49°47.99"W, depth 62-64 meters. Neotype: USNM 398292. Neotype designated by Frable et al 2013:132 [ref. 32553]. •Valid as Synodus intermedius (Spix & Agassiz 1829) -- (Uyeno & Aizawa in Uyeno et al. 1983:163 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:80 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1991:146 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:70 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:446 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:583 [ref. 16204] with author as Spix, McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:611 [ref. 23897], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:149 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:83 [ref. 25466] with question, Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:151 [ref. 27754], Rocha & Rosa 2001:989 [ref. 25909], Figueiredo & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:50 [ref. 27192], Russell 2003:928 [ref. 27004], Smith et al. 2003:11 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:88 [ref. 27807], Wirtz et al. 2007:25 [ref. 30263] with question, Carvalho-Filho et al. 2010:33 [ref. 30983], Frable et al. 2013:131 [ref. 32553] with author Agassiz, Page et al. 2013:88 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:27 [ref. 33341], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:64 [ref. 37485], Pinheiro et al. 2015:8 [ref. 34324], Reiner 2019:100 [ref. 38139], Balushkin & Prirodina 2020:24 [ref. 37828], Robertson et al. 2020:163 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:74 [ref. 38844], Caires in Marceniuk et al. 2021:180 [ref. 38945], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:73 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:75 [ref. 40480], Gurgel-Lourenço et al. 2023:76 [ref. 41056], Hoff et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40463], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:117 [ref. 40726], Page et al. 2023:92 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Synodus intermedius (Spix & Agassiz 1829). Synodontidae: Synodontinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; eastern Atlantic: São Tomé and Principe. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.