paru, Stromateus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:248 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] America [Jamaica]. No types known. See Paepke 1999:56 [ref. 24282] [apparently Bloch's Stromateus paru is a misidentification and not an original description, WNE]. •Valid as Peprilus paru (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Haedrich 1967:106 [ref. 5357], Horn 1970:202 [ref. 7749], Shimizu in Uyeno et al. 1983:429 [ref. 14275], Cervigón 1992:445 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1994:273 [ref. 24488], Andreata & Séret 1996:589 [ref. 16204] in Prepilus, Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:465 [ref. 24550], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:541 [ref. 26158], López et al. 2002:65 [ref. 26808], Haedrich 2003:1883 [ref. 27117], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:104 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:178 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:819 [ref. 28815], see Mabragaña et al. 2011:10 and table S2 [ref. 31800], Page et al. 2013:183 [ref. 32708], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496], Fabiano et al. 2014:9 [ref. 33530], Marceniuk et al. 2016:314 [ref. 34358], Nión et al. 2016:54 [ref. 35565], Spier et al. 2018:16 [ref. 36103], Bagley et al. 2023:317 [ref. 41241], Hoff et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:115 [ref. 40505], Vieira et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40759]). Current status: Valid as Peprilus paru (Linnaeus 1758). Stromateidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to northern Argentina, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2017): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.