aequidens, Otolithus Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1830:66 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 999] Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Syntypes: MNHN A-5586 (1, dry), A-8154 (1, dry, not found). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1987:14 [ref. 6382]. •Valid as Atractoscion aequidens (Cuvier 1830) -- (Trewavas 1977:283 [ref. 4459], Heemstra 1986:617 [ref. 5660], Chao & Trewavas 1990:815 [ref. 18934], Kuiter 1993:199 [ref. 23929], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:164 [ref. 25472], Sasaki 1996:84 [ref. 22156], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:121 [ref. 25206] as aequedens, Sasaki 2001:3129 [ref. 26108], Chao 2002:8 [ref. 26250], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S110 [ref. 27377], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:270 [ref. 28072], Bray et al. 2006:1258 [ref. 29091], Chao in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2640 [ref. 34618], Song et al. 2017:225 [ref. 35529], Ali et al. 2018:331 [ref. 36183], Parenti 2020:6 [ref. 37439], Russell & van Oijen 2021:430 [ref. 38177], Fermon et al. 2022:283 [ref. 39448], Sasaki 2022:395 [ref. 39862]). Current status: Valid as Atractoscion aequidens (Cuvier 1830). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Southwestern Indian Ocean: Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and Mozambique. Habitat: brackish, marine.