spilopterus, Citharichthys Günther [A.] 1862:421 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Atlantic. Syntypes: (at least 22) BMNH 1847.4.4.29-30 (2) Niger exped., 1848.1.12.1387 (1 left half skin) Jamaica, 1848.1.12.1392--97 (6, left half skins) Jamaica, 1848.1.12.1399 (1 left half skin) jamaica, 1850.6.7.10-11 (3) Santa Domingo, 2013.3.28.1 (1) New Orleans, 1852.9.16.244 (1), Zool. Soc., 1862.4.24.20-21 (2) Bahia. Some specimens are in the synonymy of Citharichthys stampflii (Steindachner 1895) -- (Desoutter 1986:428 [ref. 6212]). Specimen Citharichthys spilopterus by original author (p. 372) is not a hototype. •Valid as Citharichthys spilopterus Günther 1862 -- (Gutherz 1967:34 [ref. 23862], Lee et al. 1980:828 [ref. 22416], Robins & Ray 1986:291 [ref. 23100], Bussing 1987:254 [ref. 22927], Boschung 1992:174 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:275 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1996:58 [ref. 24489], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:256 [ref. 22947], Murdy et al. 1997:278 [ref. 23144], Evseenko 1998:58 [ref. 23643], Bussing 1998:428 [ref. 24179], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:484 [ref. 24550], Saavedra-Díaz et al. 2000:304 [ref. 24565], Marín 2000:79 [ref. 26252], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:170 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:144 [ref. 27639], Kobelkowsky D. 2002:53 [ref. 26482], Munroe 2003:1916 [ref. 27118], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:105 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:180 [ref. 27807], Boschung & Mayden 2004:635 [ref. 27995], Miller 2006:402 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:26 [ref. 31241], Angulo et al. 2013:1010 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:185 [ref. 32708], Victor & Wellington 2013:27 [ref. 32520], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:85 [ref. 33341], Marceniuk et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35324] as cf. spilopterus, Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:422 [ref. 35886], Spier et al. 2018:17 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:8 [ref. 36717], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:382 [ref. 38945], Koerber et al. 2022:68 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:10 [ref. 41297], Angulo et al. 2023:42 [ref. 40676], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Barrientos et al. 2023:273 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:269 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:131 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Citharichthys spilopterus Günther 1862. Cyclopsettidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New Jersey (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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