americanus, Ammodytes DeKay [J. E.] 1842:317, Pl. 52 (fig. 167) [Zoology of New-York; ref. 1098] Stratford, Connecticut; New York, U.S.A. Syntypes: (whereabouts unknown). •Valid as Ammodytes americanus DeKay 1842 -- (Herrera 1896:42 [ref. 39336], Burgess et al. 1980:82 [ref. 41504], Smith 1986:441 [ref. 22186], Scott & Scott 1988:439 [ref. 25518], Nizinski et al. 1990:248 [ref. 16687], Murdy et al. 1997:157 [ref. 23144], Nizinski in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:498 [ref. 26158], Nelson et al. 2004:161 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:166 [ref. 32708], Turanov & Kartavtsev 2014:451 [ref. 34455], Orr et al. 2015:155 [ref. 33719], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:410 [ref. 36370] see remarks, Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:175 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ammodytes americanus DeKay 1842. Ammodytidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic and adjacent Arctic Region. Habitat: marine.