dowei, Anableps Gill [T. N.] 1861:4 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 13; ref. 17543] El Salvador. Holotype (unique): USNM 6048. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:18 [ref. 13621], Smith 2018:68 [ref. 36061]. Originally as dowei which appears to be intentional and not an inadvertent error. Named after Captain John M. Dow, so probably dowii was meant, possibly corrected by the printer or typesetter (Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941]). In nineteenth century contemporary papers spelled dowii. Species epithet also seen as dowi or dovii. lANSP 6982 and USNM 8005 (3) are not types. Likely the holotype is the remaining specimen in USNM 6048 (D. G. Smith, pers. comm. 7/22/2011) •Valid as Anableps dowii Gill 1861 -- (Parenti 1981:501 [ref. 7066], Villa 1982:143 [ref. 36708], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:44 [ref. 22290], Ghedotti 2000:38 [ref. 27228], Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:103 [ref. 27807], Miller 2006:209 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:15 [ref. 31241], McMahan et al. 2013:447 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:108 [ref. 32708], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36544], Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941], Angulo et al. 2023:64 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:274 [ref. 41235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:93 [ref. 40480] as dowei, Page et al. 2023:148 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Anableps dowii Gill 1861. Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Distribution: Southern North America, Central America: Pacific slope (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.