saurus, Scomber Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Browne) 1801:32 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Jamaica. No types known. Based on "The leather-coat, Saurus" of Browne 1789: 452, Pl. 46 (fig. 2) [ref. 669], and Gasterosteus occidentalis Linnaeus 1758. Scomber saurus Bloch & Schneider 1801 is in prevailing usage, and here declared a nomen protectum. •Valid as Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Anderson 1964:243 [ref. 41118], Smith-Vaniz & Staiger 1973:221 [ref. 7106], Villa 1982:168 [ref. 36708], Robins & Ray 1986:163 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:132 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:290 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:87 [ref. 24474], Allen & Robertson 1994:127 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:104 [ref. 23101], Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995:972 [ref. 22829], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:151 [ref. 22947], Murdy et al. 1997:172 [ref. 23144], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:91 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:367 [ref. 24023], González Bencomo et al. 1997:158 [ref. 24960], De la Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:357 [ref. 23520], Aguilera 1998:49 [ref. 24221], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:283 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:276 [ref. 24550], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:418 [ref. 26158] as subspecies saurus, Marín 2000:73 [ref. 26252], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:160 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], López et al. 2002:64 [ref. 26808], Smith-Vaniz 2003:1453 [ref. 27083], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:81 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:31 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:141 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:118 [ref. 37547], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:288 [ref. 28815], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:30 [ref. 31826], Matamoros et al. 2009:17 [ref. 31241], García-Hernández et al. 2009:92 [ref. 37265], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Angulo et al. 2013:1000 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:145 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:396 [ref. 34894], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Nión et al. 2016:47 [ref. 35565], Marceniuk et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35324], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:435 [ref. 35886], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], Spier et al. 2018:11 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:5 [ref. 36717], Love et al. 2021:154 [ref. 39279], Marceniuk in Marceniuk et al. 2021:352 [ref. 38945], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Angulo et al. 2023:45 [ref. 40676], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Barrientos et al. 2023:273 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:142 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:129 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:212 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40981]). Nomen Protectum. Current status: Valid as Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Carangidae: Scomberoidinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to Uruguay, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Eastern Pacific populations are now classified as Oligoplites inornatus Gill 1863. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.