typus, Pseudotolithus Bleeker [P.] 1863:60, Pl. 15 (fig. 1) [Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem (Ser. 2) v. 18 (1862); ref. 395] Ashantee, Guinea. Holotype (unique): RMNH 752. •Valid as Pseudotolithus typus Bleeker 1863 -- (Trewavas 1973:398 [ref. 7201], Chao in Whitehead et al. 1986:869 [ref. 13676], Chao & Trewavas 1990:821 [ref. 18934], Chao in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2648 [ref. 34618], Carneiro et al. 2019:276 [ref. 37250], Reiner 2019:224 [ref. 38139], Parenti 2020:47 [ref. 37439], Fermon et al. 2022:284 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Pseudotolithus typus Bleeker 1863. Sciaenidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Morocco south to Angola, including Madeira (Portugal), Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.