ocellaris, Cichla Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:340, Pl. 66 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Indian Ocean [actual is Suriname, South America]. Holotype (unique): ZMB 2839. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:63 [ref. 24282], Paepke & Schindler 2013:266 [ref. 32895]. •Valid as Cichla ocellaris Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Kullander & Nijssen 1989:7 [ref. 14136], Page & Burr 1991:330 [ref. 18983], Fuller et al. 1999:416 [ref. 25838], Keith et al. 2000:164 [ref. 24547], Carpenter 2001:3336 [ref. 26131], Carpenter 2003:1693 [ref. 27092], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:620 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:151 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:419 [ref. 28379], Staeck 2005:4 [ref. 28482], Kullander & Ferreira 2006:301 [ref. 28883] with author as Schneider, Scharpf 2009:4 [ref. 30400], Page & Burr 2011:608 [ref. 31215], Willis et al. 2012:18 [ref. 37399], Page et al. 2013:156 [ref. 32708], Page et al. 2013:156 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:59 [ref. 33341], DoNascimiento 2016:536 [ref. 34727], Robins et al. 2018:311 [ref. 35886], Robins et al. 2018:370 [ref. 35886], Rodríguez-Barrera et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37800], Sabaj et al. 2020:84 [ref. 37398], Silvano et al. 2020:335 [ref. 38134], Taphorn et al. 2022:31 [ref. 41297], Jamandre 2023:163 [ref. 40455], Page et al. 2023:136 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cichla ocellaris Bloch & Schneider 1801. Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: Northern South America: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname. Introduced elsewhere, including Florida and Puerto Rico (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.