y-graecum, Uranoscopus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829:308 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 3; ref. 4879] No locality. Syntypes: MNHN A-5602 (1, dry). Originally as Y graecum. Appeared first as name only in Cuvier 1829:154 [ref. 995]. A hyphen is added to the species epithet as y-graecum according to ICZN Art. 32.5.2.4.3. •Valid as Uranoscopus y-graecum Cuvier 1829 – (Herrera 1896:61 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Astroscopus ygraecum (Cuvier 1829) – (Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221] as ygricium, Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:400 [ref. 24550], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:94 [ref. 27192]). •Valid as Astroscopus y-graecum (Cuvier 1829) -- (Berry & Anderson 1961:569 [ref. 37362], Pietsch 1989:298 [ref. 12541], Boschung 1992:158 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:454 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1994:61 [ref. 24488], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], Carpenter 2003:1747 [ref. 27092], Nelson et al. 2004:161 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:569 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:166 [ref. 32708], Vilasri 2013:88 [ref. 33304], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Spier et al. 2018:15 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:9 [ref. 36717] , Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:451 [ref. 38945], Bagley et al. 2023:322 [ref. 41241], Carvalho-Filho 2023:218 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:175 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Astroscopus y-graecum (Cuvier 1829). Uranoscopidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.