ocellatus, Lobotes Agassiz [L.] in Spix & Agassiz 1831:129, Pl. 68 [Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam; ref. 13] Atlantic [in error]. No types known. Type catalog: Kullander 1986:68 [ref. 12439]. •Valid as Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz 1831) -- (Lee et al. 1980:763 [ref. 22416], Ortega & Vari 1986:20 [ref. 9708], Kullander 1986:61 [ref. 12439], Page & Burr 1991:327 [ref. 18983], Britski et al. 1999:149 [ref. 24147], Fuller et al. 1999:415 [ref. 25838], Lyons et al. 2000:67 [ref. 26594], Keith et al. 2000:176 [ref. 24547], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:617 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:75 [ref. 27366], Nelson et al. 2004:151 [ref. 27807], Menni 2004:87 [ref. 28131], Mundy 2005:419 [ref. 28379], Scharpf 2009:4 [ref. 30400], Koerber 2011:8 [ref. 31122], Page & Burr 2011:607 [ref. 31215], Hammer et al. 2012:66 [ref. 32389], Kottelat 2013:373 [ref. 32989], Barriga Salazar 2014:118 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:5 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:123, 188 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:99 [ref. 35633], Robins et al. 2018:368 [ref. 35886], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:252 [ref. 37108], Rodríguez-Barrera et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37800], Silva et al. 2020:15 [ref. 37809], Silvano et al. 2020:329 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:28 [ref. 39298], Lozano et al. 2022:122 [ref. 39396], Chan et al. 2023:143 [ref. 40365], Çiçek et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40616], Page et al. 2023:136 [ref. 40505], Çiçek et al. 2024:327 [ref. 40789], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:57 [ref. 41258]). Current status: Valid as Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz 1831). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana and Peru. Introduced elsewhere, including southeastern Brazil, southern Florida and Puerto Rico (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater.