saltatrix, Gasterosteus Linnaeus [C.] 1766:491 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] Carolina [South Carolina] and Virginia, U.S.A. Syntypes: LS 116 (left head), 135 (left half-skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1985:52-53 [ref. 20705]. Not the same as Perca saltatrix Linnaeus 1758. Misspelled sallatrix by Schöpf 1788:168 [ref. 18700]. The spelling saltator is the masculine form of saltatrix, as used in Scomber saltator by Bloch & Schneider 1801:35 [ref. 471], but it is a noun and should be retained in its original form. Based on the 'Skipjack' in manuscript description and 2 specimens sent by A. Garden [South Carolina], and on the 'Saltatrix, Skipjack' of Catesby 1743:14, Pl. 14, fig. 2 (v. 2) [ref. 774] [Virginia; (South) Carolina]. •Valid as Pomatomus saltator (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Monod 1973:369 [ref. 7193], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:812 [ref. 13676], Dooley 1990:721 [ref. 18458], Cervigón 1993:43 [ref. 24474], Allen 1997:118 [ref. 23977], Santos et al. 1997:83 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:82 [ref. 24952], Popova 1998:121 [ref. 23588], Fricke 1999:240 [ref. 24106], Aguilera 1998:49 [ref. 24221], Afonso et al. 1999:84 [ref. 25466], Cousseau & Perrotta 2000:96 [ref. 25942], Hutchins 2001:32 [ref. 25847], Roe et al. 2002:903 [ref. 26504], López et al. 2002:65 [ref. 26808], Parin 2003:S5 [ref. 28536], Golani 2005:38 [ref. 37112], Golani 2021:47 [ref. 38303]). •Valid as Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Herrera 1896:47 [ref. 39336], Barger et al. 1978:146 [ref. 41523], Smith 1986:421 [ref. 22186], Inada in Nakamura et al. 1986:206 [ref. 14235], Robins & Ray 1986:155 [ref. 23100], Smith 1986:564 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:76 [ref. 25477], Scott & Scott 1988:370 [ref. 25518], Paxton et al. 1989:570 [ref. 12442], Pequeño 1989:60 [ref. 14125], McAllister 1990:145 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:128 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:386 [ref. 23827], Kuiter 1993:167 [ref. 23929], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:157 [ref. 25472], Gomon et al. 1994:577 [ref. 22532], Randall 1995:169 [ref. 22896], Murdy et al. 1997:209 [ref. 23144], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:750 [ref. 24702], Kuiter 1997:152 [ref. 25488], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:270 [ref. 24550], Collette 1999:2650 [ref. 24785], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:230 [ref. 25013], Johnson 1999:733 [ref. 25471], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:615 [ref. 25122], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:159 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:81 [ref. 26753], Gibson & Myers 2002:134 [ref. 26567], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:400 [ref. 26158], Collette 2003:1412 [ref. 27087], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S106 [ref. 27377], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:79 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:139 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:187 [ref. 28072], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:178 [ref. 28369], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:252 [ref. 28815], Paxton et al. 2006:1134 [ref. 28994], Fricke et al. 2007:83 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:89 [ref. 30517], Wirtz et al. 2007:31 [ref. 30263], Smith-Vaniz 2008:570 [ref. 30654], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:171 [ref. 31251], Bañon et al. 2010:16 [ref. 31029], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:43 [ref. 36649], Mabragaña et al. 2011:table S2 [ref. 31800], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:143 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:123 [ref. 32972], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496], Fabiano et al. 2014:8 [ref. 33530], Parin et al. 2014:357 [ref. 33547], Psomadakis et al. 2015:212 [ref. 34104], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2439 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:47 [ref. 35565], Fricke et al. 2018:178 [ref. 35805], Martins & Carneiro 2018:129 [ref. 36550], Spier et al. 2018:10 [ref. 36103], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:248 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:97 [ref. 36864], Hoschke et al. 2019:156 [ref. 36626], Ribeiro et al. 2019:7 [ref. 36717], Zajonz et al. 2019:75 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:80 [ref. 37515], Iglésias et al. 2020:294 [ref. 37987], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:414 [ref. 37272], Abliazov et al. 2021:9 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:82 [ref. 38887], Kovačić et al. 2021:34 [ref. 39014], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:540 [ref. 38945], Russell & van Oijen 2021:430 [ref. 38177], Fermon et al. 2022:211 [ref. 39448], Heemstra 2022:165 [ref. 39747], Niță et al. 2022:101 [ref. 40471], Zajonz et al. 2022:102 [ref. 40522], Bagley et al. 2023:317 [ref. 41241], Carvalho-Filho 2023:133 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:115 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus 1766). Pomatomidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea) but excluding eastern and northwestern Pacific. IUCN (2015): Vulnerable. Habitat: brackish, marine.