auratus, Diapterus Ranzani [C.] 1842:340, Pl. 29 (fig. 1) [Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis v. 5; ref. 9017] Brazilian seas. Holotype (unique): MZUB 978. •Valid as Diapterus auratus Ranzani 1842 -- (Burgess et al. 1980:81 [ref. 41504], Pezold & Edwards 1983:104 [ref. 37431], Deckert & Greenfield 1987:185 [ref. 6778], Cervigón 1992:325 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:163 [ref. 24474], Murdy et al. 1997:227 [ref. 23144], Aguilera 1998:50 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:321 [ref. 24550], Marín 2000:73 [ref. 26252], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Gilmore & Greenfield 2003:1510 [ref. 27093], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:83 [ref. 27192] dated 1840, Nelson et al. 2004:143 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:347 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:344 [ref. 28615], González-Acosta et al. 2007:369 [ref. 34191], Matamoros et al. 2009:18 [ref. 31241], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Vergara-Solana et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33272], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:52 [ref. 33341], Angulo et al. 2013:1001 [ref. 33194], Marceniuk et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35324], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:343 [ref. 35886], Spier et al. 2018:12 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:7 [ref. 36717], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:487 [ref. 38945], Angulo et al. 2023:74 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:274 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:159 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:172 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Diapterus auratus Ranzani 1842. Gerreidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.