ancylodon, Lonchurus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:102, Pl. 25 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Suriname. Syntypes: ZMB 868 (4). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:129 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Chao 1978:37 [ref. 6983], Cervigón 1992:405 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:278 [ref. 24474], Andreata & Séret 1996:586 [ref. 16204], Aguilera 1998:50 [ref. 24221], Keith et al. 2000:130 [ref. 24547], Cousseau & Perrotta 2000:110 [ref. 25942], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], López et al. 2002:65 [ref. 26808], Chao 2003:1625 [ref. 27097], Casatti & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:87 [ref. 27192], Carvalho-Filho et al. 2010:48 [ref. 30861], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496], Nión et al. 2016:49 [ref. 35565], Marceniuk et al. 2017:41 [ref. 35324], Spier et al. 2018:14 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:4 [ref. 36717], Parenti 2020:27 [ref. 37439], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:639 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:176 [ref. 40480], Vieira et al. 2023:16 [ref. 40759]). Current status: Valid as Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Colombia and Venezuela south to northern Argentina, including southern Caribbean Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.