martinica, Atherina Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835:459 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 10; ref. 1004] Martinique Island, West Indies. Syntypes: MNHN A-4378 (3). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1971:707 [ref. 21541]. •Valid as Membras martinica (Valenciennes 1835) -- (Smith 1986:415 [ref. 22186], Chernoff 1986:240 [ref. 5847], Robins & Ray 1986:112 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:90 [ref. 23239], Murdy et al. 1997:131 [ref. 23144], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:886 [ref. 23897], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:191 [ref. 24550], Fuller et al. 1999:282 [ref. 25838], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:153 [ref. 27754], Chernoff 2003:1101 [ref. 27017], Dyer in Reis et al. 2003:520 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:98 [ref. 27807], Miller 2006:201 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2007:8 [ref. 30398], García-Hernández et al. 2009:92 [ref. 37265], Page et al. 2013:100 [ref. 32708], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:185 [ref. 35886], Chernoff et al. 2020:194 [ref. 37775], Bagley et al. 2023:319 [ref. 41241], Page et al. 2023:139 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Membras martinica (Valenciennes 1835). Atherinopsidae: Menidiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to Martinique, including Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.