fiatola, Stromateus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:248 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea; Red Sea. No types known. Based on multiple species; neotype designation needed to restrict to currently used species. •Valid as Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:48 [ref. 39336], Haedrich 1967:102 [ref. 5357], Haedrich 1973:565 [ref. 7216], Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986:1192 [ref. 13677], Haedrich 1986:846 [ref. 5659], Haedrich 1990:1021 [ref. 19509], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:177 [ref. 25472], Goren & Dor 1994:71 [ref. 25356], Santos et al. 1997:130 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:112 [ref. 24952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:146 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:61 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:112 [ref. 29533], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:71 [ref. 36649] as fiatiola, Wirtz et al. 2013:135 [ref. 32972], Haedrich in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2931 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:69 [ref. 36550], Carneiro et al. 2019:173 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:101 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:285 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:95 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:95 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:84 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:36 [ref. 39014], Anderson 2022:299 [ref. 40173], El Zrelli & Yacoubi in Kousteni et al. 2022:427 [ref. 39260], Fermon et al. 2022:211 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus 1758. Stromateidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay south to Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), including Azores (Portugal), Madeira (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.