rhombeus, Gerres Cuvier [G.] 1829:188 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Martinique Island, West Indies. Neotype: MNHN 0000-9451. Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:17 [ref. 15502]. Available from footnote 1: G. rhombeus, N., ou Stone bass., Sloane, Jam., II, pl. 253, f. 1;". See also Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:459 [ref. 996]. Neotype established in Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:17 [ref. 15502]. •Valid as Gerres rhombeus Cuvier 1829 -- (González Bencomo et al. 1997:159 [ref. 24960]). •Valid as Diapterus rhombeus (Cuvier 1829) -- (Deckert & Greenfield 1987:187 [ref. 6778], Cervigón 1992:325 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:164 [ref. 24474], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:169 [ref. 22947], Aguilera 1998:50 [ref. 24221], Araújo & Santos 1999:434 [ref. 41590], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:320 [ref. 24550], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Gilmore & Greenfield 2003:1511 [ref. 27093], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:83 [ref. 27192] with Valenciennes as author, Smith et al. 2003:35 [ref. 27621] dated 1830, Nelson et al. 2004:143 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:348 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:346 [ref. 28615], González-Acosta et al. 2007:369 [ref. 34191], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:148 [ref. 32708], Vergara-Solana et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33272], Angulo et al. 2013:1001 [ref. 33194], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:436 [ref. 35886], Spier et al. 2018:12 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:7 [ref. 36717], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:488 [ref. 38945], Angulo et al. 2023:71 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:274 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:159 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:173 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Diapterus rhombeus (Cuvier 1829). Gerreidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mxico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.