transandeanus, Gobius Günther [A.] 1861:62 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Western Ecuador. Syntypes: (4) BMNH 1860.6.16.135-136. •Synonym of Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Watson 1996:3 [ref. 22211], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:658 [ref. 27061], Scharpf 2009:13 [ref. 30400]). •Valid as Awaous transandeanus (Günther 1861) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:43 [ref. 37559], Ortega & Vari 1986:21 [ref. 9708], Bussing 1987:234 [ref. 22927], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:74 [ref. 22290] as trasandeanus, Hoese in Fischer et al. 1995:1134 [ref. 22829] as transandaneus Poey 1860, Bussing 1998:398 [ref. 24179], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:439 [ref. 24550], Miller 2006:396 [ref. 28615], Minckley & Marsh 2009:279 [ref. 31114], Angulo et al. 2013:1007 [ref. 33194], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:357 [ref. 34894], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:92 [ref. 35859], Angulo et al. 2020:7 [ref. 37425], McMahan et al. 2021:[5] [ref. 38383], Meza-Vargas et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39566], Angulo et al. 2023:35 [ref. 40676] as cf. transandeanus, Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:161 [ref. 40816], Valenzuela et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40815], Escobar Camacho et al. 2024:8 [ref. 40892]). Current status: Valid as Awaous transandeanus (Günther 1861). Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. Distribution: Southern North America, Central America, northwestern South America: Pacific Slope of Mexico south to Peru, including southern Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.