ovatus, Gasterosteus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:296 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Asia [probably in error for eastern Atlantic]. Holotype (unique): ZMUU Linn. Coll. 202. Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:43 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:173, Fig. 12 [ref. 20102]. ICZN case 2898 pending, see Smith-Vaniz & Randall 1994 [ref. 21632]. •Valid as Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Hureau & Tortonese 1973:383 [ref. 7198], Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. 1986:840 [ref. 13676], Daget & Smith-Vaniz 1986:321 [ref. 6207], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1990:750 [ref. 18644], Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:683 [ref. 21590], Chen et al. 1997:67 [ref. 26476], Cheng & Zhou 1997:272 [ref. 26385], Santos et al. 1997:87 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:85 [ref. 24952], Afonso et al. 1999:74 [ref. 25466], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:86 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:40 [ref. 37112], Fricke 2007:29 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:85 [ref. 29533], Wirtz et al. 2007:33 [ref. 30263], Fricke 2008:33 [ref. 30182], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:31 [ref. 31826], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:45 [ref. 36649], Wirtz et al. 2014:8 [ref. 33516], Smith-Vaniz in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2507 [ref. 34618], Almeida & Alves 2019:269 [ref. 37509], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Brown et al. 2019:169 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:256 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:202 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:62 [ref. 37515], Iglésias et al. 2020:295 [ref. 37987], Kovačić et al. 2020:36 [ref. 37519] as Trachynotus ovatus, Bañón & Maño 2021:83 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:50 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:46 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:241 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus 1758). Carangidae: Trachinotinae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Angola, including Azores, Madeira, and São Tomé and Principe; southern-central Atlantic: Saint Helena. Habitat: brackish, marine.