roberti, Hemiramphus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:24 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 19; ref. 4883] Cayenne, French Guiana. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-5634. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3204 (1), B-1073 (2). Type catalog: Collette et al. 1997:19 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype selected by Collette in Collette et al. 1997:19 [ref. 22813]. •Valid as Hyporhamphus roberti (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Cervigón 1991:223 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:338 [ref. 23827], La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:190 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:262 [ref. 24023], Aguilera 1998:47 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:214 [ref. 24550], Marín 2000:69 [ref. 26252], Camargo & Isaac 2001:139 [ref. 27639] as Linnaeus 1758, Collette 2003:1143 [ref. 26981] with two subspecies, Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:69 [ref. 27192] dated 1846, Collette 2004:10 [ref. 27583], Miller 2006:205 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:15 [ref. 31241] with subspecies, Banford 2010:347 [ref. 31088], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:102 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:998 [ref. 33194], Marceniuk et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35324], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Collette & Bemis 2019:119 [ref. 37342], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:311 [ref. 38945], Angulo et al. 2023:65 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:274 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:90 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:149 [ref. 40505], Vieira et al. 2023:16 [ref. 40759]). Current status: Valid as Hyporhamphus roberti (Valenciennes 1847). Hemiramphidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Nicaragua to southeastern Brazil, including southern Caribbean Sea. Replaced in western Caribbean Sea by Hypohamphus hildebrandi Jordan & Evermann 1927. Habitat: brackish, marine.