guavina, Eleotris Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1837:223 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 12; ref. 1006] Martinique Island, West Indies; Suriname; Cuba. Syntypes: ?MNHN A-1565 (1) Suriname, A-1566 (1) Martinique, A-2532 (1) Senegel; RMNH 2041 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot et al. 1991:12 [ref. 19958]. •Valid as Guavina guavina (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Miller & Wongrat 1990:956 [ref. 19381], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:73 [ref. 22290], Cervigón 1994:147 [ref. 24488], Taylor 1996:120 [ref. 24969], Torelli et al. 1997:70 [ref. 24612], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:418 [ref. 24550], Taylor 2001:153 [ref. 25200], Camargo & Isaac 2001:142 [ref. 27639], Lim et al. 2002:96 [ref. 28310], Murdy & Hoese 2003:1780 [ref. 27111], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:97 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:169 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:660 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:394 [ref. 28615], Van Tassell 2011:148 [ref. 31732], Page et al. 2013:174 [ref. 32708], Phillip et al. 2013:24 [ref. 32896], Angulo et al. 2013:1007 [ref. 33194], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:75 [ref. 33341], DoNascimiento 2016:536 [ref. 34727], Marceniuk et al. 2017:41 [ref. 35324], Costa et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35684], Guimarães-Costa et al. 2017:3 [ref. 35781], Carvalho-Filho in Marceniuk et al. 2021:226 [ref. 38945], Parenti 2021:45 [ref. 38603], Angulo et al. 2023:34 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:272 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:233 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:120 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Guavina guavina (Valenciennes 1837). Eleotridae: Eleotrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) and Cuba south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.