picta, Eleotris Kner [R.] 1863:223, "Fig. 6" (unpublished) [Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1863, v. 2; ref. 5002] Río Bayano, Panama. Syntypes: NMW 76866 [ex ZSM] (1), ZSM [old collection] (orig. 3) destroyed in WWII. Type catalog: Neumann 2006:274 [ref. 28925]. Also appeared as new in Kner & Steindachner 1864:18, Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [ref. 2649] as Eleotris pictus. •Valid as Eleotris picta Kner 1863 -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:43 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:21 [ref. 9708], Lee et al. 1980:782 [ref. 22416], Bussing 1987:245 [ref. 22927], Gamboa Pérez 1992:328 [ref. 38704], Bussing 1996:251 [ref. 21937], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:73 [ref. 22290], Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1064 [ref. 22829] as pictus, Grove & Lavenberg 1997:549 [ref. 24023], Bussing 1998:416 [ref. 24179], Miller 1998:289 [ref. 24950], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:415 [ref. 24550], Pezold & Cage 2002:43 [ref. 25941], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:659 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:160 [ref. 37547], Miller 2006:392 [ref. 28615], Scharpf 2009:12 [ref. 30400], Minckley & Marsh 2009:277 [ref. 31114], Matamoros et al. 2009:23 [ref. 31241], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:194 [ref. 30957], Lasso-Alcalá et al. 2011:575 [ref. 31520], Van Tassell 2011:147 [ref. 31732], Angulo et al. 2013:1006 [ref. 33194], McMahan et al. 2013:452 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:174 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:348 [ref. 34894], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:149 [ref. 34871], Guimarães-Costa et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35781], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:92 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:293 [ref. 36544], Angulo et al. 2020:7 [ref. 37425], Love et al. 2021:203 [ref. 39279], Parenti 2021:38 [ref. 38603], Grove et al. 2022:18 [ref. 41326], Angulo et al. 2023:33 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:272 [ref. 41235], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:158 [ref. 40816], Valenzuela et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40815]). Current status: Valid as Eleotris picta Kner 1863. Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Cocos Island (Costa Rica) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Introduced in western Venezuela. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.