pisonis, Gobius Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1206 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] South America. No types known. •Valid as Eleotropis pisonis (Gmelin 1789) -- (Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221]). •Valid as Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin 1789) -- (Lee et al. 1980:783 [ref. 22416], Robins & Ray 1986:240 [ref. 23100], Bussing 1987:246 [ref. 22927], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:73 [ref. 22290], Cervigón 1994:144 [ref. 24488], Bussing 1996:251 [ref. 21937], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:228 [ref. 22947], Torelli et al. 1997:70 [ref. 24612], Bussing 1998:417 [ref. 24179], Miller 1998:289 [ref. 24950], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:417 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:312 [ref. 25013], Schwartz 1999:282 [ref. 25307], Keith et al. 2000:232 [ref. 24547], Marín 2000:77 [ref. 26252], Taylor 2001:153 [ref. 25200], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Pezold & Cage 2002:45 [ref. 25941], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1780 [ref. 27111], Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:659 [ref. 27061], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27192], Matamoros et al. 2009:23 [ref. 31241], Van Tassell 2011:147 [ref. 31732], Angulo et al. 2013:1006 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Kottelat 2013:391 [ref. 32989], Phillip et al. 2013:23 [ref. 32896], Catelani et al. 2014:932 [ref. 37496], Costa et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35684], Guimarães-Costa et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35781], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:224 [ref. 38945], Parenti 2021:38 [ref. 38603], Koerber et al. 2022:66 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:37 [ref. 41297], Carvalho-Filho 2023:233 [ref. 40480], Gurgel-Lourenço et al. 2023:77 [ref. 41056]). Current status: Valid as Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin 1789). Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Venezuela south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including southern Caribbean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.