amblyopsis, Culius Cope [E. D.] 1871:473 [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series) v. 14 (pt 3) (art. 5); ref. 920] Suriname. Syntypes: ANSP 10577-79 (3). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:104 [ref. 13621]. See also Boschung 1992:162 [ref. 23239]. •Valid as Culius amblyopsis Cope 1871 -- (Bussing 1987:244 [ref. 22927], Bussing 1996:251 [ref. 21937]). •Valid as Eleotris amblyopsis (Cope 1871) -- (Cervigón 1994:143 [ref. 24488], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:227 [ref. 22947], Bussing 1998:413 [ref. 24179], Miller 1998:289 [ref. 24950], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:417 [ref. 24550], Pezold & Cage 2002:39 [ref. 25941], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1780 [ref. 27111], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:659 [ref. 27061], Smith et al. 2003:58 [ref. 27621], Ross & Rhode 2004:302 [ref. 27789], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:657 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:391 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:23 [ref. 31241], Van Tassell 2011:147 [ref. 31732], Schliewen 2011:209 [ref. 31738], Page et al. 2013:174 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:23 [ref. 32896], Angulo et al. 2013:1006 [ref. 33194], Schmidt & McMullin 2015:4 [ref. 36603], Walsh & Chakrabarty 2016:515 [ref. 34497], Guimarães-Costa et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35781], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:404 [ref. 35886], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:223 [ref. 38945], Parenti 2021:35 [ref. 38603], Taphorn et al. 2022:37 [ref. 41297], Angulo et al. 2023:32 [ref. 40676], Bagley et al. 2023:317 [ref. 41241], Barrientos et al. 2023:272 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:233 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:119 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Eleotris amblyopsis (Cope 1871). Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: South Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Maranhão (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.