brasiliensis, Atherina Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1825:332 [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 3574] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Syntypes: MNHN A-4374 (2). Type catalog: Blanc & Hureau 1971:703-704 [ref. 21541]. •Valid as Menidia brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) -- (Herrera 1896:42 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Xenomelaniris brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) -- (Cervigón 1991:237 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:263 [ref. 23827], González Bencomo et al. 1997:158 [ref. 24960], Chernoff 2003:1098 [ref. 27017] as cf. brasiliensis). •Valid as Atherinella brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) -- (Chernoff 1986:241 [ref. 5847], Aguilera 1998:47 [ref. 24221], Dyer 2000:104 [ref. 26677], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639] dated 1824, Malabarba & Dyer 2002:259 [ref. 26538], Dyer in Reis et al. 2003:516 [ref. 27061], Menezes et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:65 [ref. 27192] dated 1824, França et al. 2007:370 [ref. 29284], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Catelani et al. 2014:932 [ref. 37496], Nión et al. 2016:42 [ref. 35565], Marceniuk et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35324] as aff. brasiliensis, Costa et al. 2017:45 [ref. 35684], Spier et al. 2018:8 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:4 [ref. 36717], Marceniuk in Marceniuk et al. 2021:294 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:94 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Atherinella brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1825). Atherinopsidae: Menidiinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Colombia to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including southern Caribbean Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.