cicerelus, Ammodytes Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:21, Pl. 9 (fig. 4) [Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia; ref. 3594] Messina, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Also appeared in Rafinesque 1810:38 [ref. 3595] as Ammodytes cicerellus. •Possibly valid as Gymnammodytes cicerelus (Rafinesque 1810) -- (Quéro 1990:920 [ref. 18537]). •Valid as Ammodytes cicerelus (Rafinesque 1810) -- (see Wirtz et al. 2007:16 [ref. 30263]). •Valid as Gymnammodytes cicerelus (Rafinesque 1810) -- (Wheeler 1973:447 [ref. 7190], Reay in Whitehead et al. 1986:948 [ref. 13676], Ida et al. 1994:258 [ref. 22075], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:117 [ref. 26753], Parin 2003:S21 [ref. 28536], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:181 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:95 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:121 [ref. 30517], Fricke 2008:51 [ref. 30182], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:173 [ref. 31251], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:56 [ref. 36649] as cicerellus, Nizinski in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2785 [ref. 34618], Artüz & Fricke 2019:558 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:291 [ref. 37250], Parenti 2019:101 [ref. 37117], Reiner 2019:249 [ref. 38139], Kovačić et al. 2020:35 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38576], Kovačić et al. 2021:65 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:291 [ref. 39448] possible, Niță et al. 2022:65 [ref. 40471]). Current status: Valid as Gymnammodytes cicerelus (Rafinesque 1810). Ammodytidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Angola, including Azores (Portugal), and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: brackish, marine.