maculatus, Scomber Mitchill [S. L.] 1815:426, Pl. 6 (fig. 8) [Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814); ref. 13292] New York, U.S.A. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Valid as Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill 1815) -- (Baughman 1947:280 [ref. 41409], Postel 1973:473 [ref. 7208], Kong 1978 [ref. 21299], Collette & Nauen 1983:65 [ref. 5375], Collette & Russo 1985:641 [ref. 5221], Robins & Ray 1986:260 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:456 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:180 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:169 [ref. 23239], Murdy et al. 1997:182 [ref. 23144], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:587 [ref. 24023], Banford et al. 1999:597 [ref. 23912], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:463 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:332 [ref. 25013], Collette et al. 2001:2 [ref. 25629], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:530 [ref. 26158], Collette 2003:1851 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:11 [ref. 27312], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:782 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:182 [ref. 32708], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Collette & Graves 2019:180 [ref. 37341], Zeng et al. 2022:160 [ref. 40510], Bagley et al. 2023:317 [ref. 41241], Carvalho-Filho 2023:251 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:114 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill 1815). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New England (U.S.A.) south to northern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2023): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.