squamosissima, Sciaena Heckel [J. J.] 1840:438, Pl. 30 (figs. 26-28) [Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte v. 2; ref. 2064] Rio Negro and Rio Branco, South America. Syntypes: NMW 75985 (4), 83543 (1), 92124 (1); SMF 2961 [ex NMW in 1844] (1, dry). Soares & Casatti 2000:512 [ref. 24955] treat NMW 92124 as the holotype. •Valid as Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel 1840) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:42 [ref. 37559], Chao 1978:44 [ref. 6983], Ortega & Vari 1986:20 [ref. 9708], Gómez & Chebez 1996:65 [ref. 23791], Keith et al. 2000:138 [ref. 24547], Soares & Casatti 2000:512 [ref. 24955], Aguilera & Rodrigues de Aguilera 2001:66 [ref. 25927], Lasso et al. 2001:101 [ref. 25928], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], Casatti in Reis et al. 2003:601 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:74 [ref. 27366], Casatti & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:88 [ref. 27192], Menni 2004:87 [ref. 28131], Casatti 2005:42 [ref. 28401], Barriga Salazar 2014:117 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:5 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:133, 189 [ref. 35004], Mirande & Koerber 2015:55 [ref. 35117], Melo et al. 2016:377 [ref. 35317], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:103 [ref. 35633], Marceniuk et al. 2017:41 [ref. 35324], Urbano-Bonilla et al. 2018:91 [ref. 35773], Parenti 2020:44 [ref. 37439], Reis et al. 2020:474 [ref. 38364], Silva et al. 2020:15 [ref. 37809], Silvano et al. 2020:375 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:27 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:82 [ref. 39235], Lasso et al. in Lasso & Morales-Betancourt 2022:284 [ref. 40783], Taphorn et al. 2022:9 [ref. 41297], Carvalho-Filho 2023:175 [ref. 40480], Vieira et al. 2023:16 [ref. 40759], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:5 [ref. 41573], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:57 [ref. 41258]). Current status: Valid as Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel 1840). Sciaenidae. Distribution: South America: Amazon, Orinoco, Paraná, Paraguay and São Francisco basins, rivers of the Guianas and coastal rivers of northern Brazil (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela). Introduced in southeastern Brazil. Habitat: freshwater.
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