scituliceps, Synodus Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:344 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 4 (no. 237); ref. 2470] Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico.; Panama (Pacific). Syntypes: USNM 28392 (1, not found in 1980) Mazatlan, USNM 29449 (1, not found in 1980) Panama. •Valid as Synodus scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert 1882 -- (Pequeño 1989:34 [ref. 14125], Allen & Robertson 1994:72 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:54 [ref. 23101], Bussing & Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995:1628 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:298 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:202 [ref. 24023], De la Cruz-Agüero & Cota-Gómez 1998:356 [ref. 23520], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:168 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:161 [ref. 24550], Groce et al. 2001:153 [ref. 25754], Nelson et al. 2004:88 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:40 [ref. 37547], Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2006:253 [ref. 28944], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:189 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:89 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:144 [ref. 34871], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:89 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:292 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:61 [ref. 39279], Polanco F. & Acero P. 2021:142 [ref. 39983], Grove et al. 2022:17 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:92 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:143 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Synodus scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert 1882. Synodontidae: Synodontinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Chile, including Guadalupe Island (Mexico), Gulf of California (Mexico), and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.