castelnaeana, Pellona Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:306 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Mouth of Amazon River, Brazil. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3705. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3706 (1). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:293 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:21 [ref. 9739]. Lectotype selected by Whitehead 1967:108 [ref. 6464]. •Valid as Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141], Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Le Guennec 1992:150 [ref. 22388], de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Munroe 2003:798 [ref. 26996], Barriga Salazar 2014:104 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:96, 187 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:383 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298], Taphorn et al. 2022:35 [ref. 41297], Carvalho-Filho 2023:66 [ref. 40480], Koerber et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40665], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:6 [ref. 41573]). Current status: Valid as Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin and coastal rivers of northeastern Brazil (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.