notata, Belone Poey [F.] 1860:293 [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 3499] Havana, Cuba. Syntypes and/or Poey specimens: MCZ 32933 (1), ZMB 5499 [Poey no. 413] (1). Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:179 [ref. 22926] with 32933 as holotype, Paepke & Seegers 1986:147 [ref. 19981], Faloh-Gandarilla et al. 2016:28 [ref. 35195] not a holotype. •Valid as Belone notata Poey 1860 -- (Mees 1962:57 [ref. 13277]). •Valid as Strongylura notata (Poey 1860) [often as a subspecies] -- (Collette & Berry 1965:391 [ref. 13367], Robins & Ray 1986:106 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:84 [ref. 23239], Gamboa Pérez 1992:309 [ref. 38704], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:95 [ref. 22947], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:937 [ref. 23897], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:203 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:166 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:154 [ref. 27754], Lovejoy & Collette 2001:329 [ref. 25232], Collette 2003:1105 [ref. 26981], Collette 2003:8, [ref. 27306] as S. n. notata, Smith et al. 2003:15 [ref. 27621] as S. n. notata, Banford et al. 2004:834 [ref. 27645], Nelson et al. 2004:99 [ref. 27807], Miller 2006:203 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:15 [ref. 31241], García-Hernández et al. 2009:92 [ref. 37265], Page et al. 2013:103 [ref. 32708], Faloh-Gandarilla et al. 2016:28 [ref. 35195], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:190 [ref. 35886], Collette & Bemis 2019:30 [ref. 37342], Barrientos et al. 2023:274 [ref. 41235], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:111 [ref. 40726], Page et al. 2023:149 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Strongylura notata (Poey 1860). Belonidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Cuba and Jamaica to Honduras, including southern Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.