crossotus, Etropus Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:364 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 4 (no. 237); ref. 2470] Astillero estuary at Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico. Holotype (unique): USNM 28124 (missing in 1980). •Valid as Etropus crossotus Jordan & Gilbert 1882 -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:60 [ref. 39147], Gutherz 1967:28 [ref. 23862], Leslie & Stewart 1986:151 [ref. 5948], Robins & Ray 1986:292 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:536 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:220 [ref. 14674], Retzer 1990:140 [ref. 39996], Boschung 1992:174 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:276 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1996:62 [ref. 24489] as crossotus and crosotus, Allen & Robertson 1994:288 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:150 [ref. 23101], Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995:1365 [ref. 22830], Andreata & Séret 1996:589 [ref. 16204] dated 1881, De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:251 [ref. 24545], Murdy et al. 1997:280 [ref. 23144], Evseenko 1998:58 [ref. 23643], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:210 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:479 [ref. 24550], Fuller et al. 1999:479 [ref. 25838], Saavedra-Díaz et al. 2000:306 [ref. 24565], Camargo & Isaac 2001:144 [ref. 27639] dated 1802, Munroe 2003:1917 [ref. 27118], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:106 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:180 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:172 [ref. 37547], van der Heiden & Plascencia González 2005:470 [ref. 28311], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:850 [ref. 28815], McMahan et al. 2013:454 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:185 [ref. 32708], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:150 [ref. 34871], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:93 [ref. 35859], Spier et al. 2018:17 [ref. 36103], González-Murcia et al. 2019:300 [ref. 36544], Ribeiro et al. 2019:8 [ref. 36717], Love et al. 2021:216 [ref. 39279], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:385 [ref. 38945], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Carvalho-Filho 2023:271 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:131 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:238 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Etropus crossotus Jordan & Gilbert 1882. Cyclopsettidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of central Baja California (Mexico) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico); western Atlantic: Virginia (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: brackish, marine.
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