hospes, Mugil Jordan [D. S.] & Culver [G. B.] in Jordan 1895:422, Pl. 31 [Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) v. 5; ref. 2394] Harbor at Mazatlán, Sinaloa, western Mexico. Lectotype: CAS-SU 2890. Paralectotypes: BMNH 1895.5.27.178 [from Jordan] (1); CAS-SU 1695 + 2954 (now 2), 2890 (not found); USNM 47446 (1); ZMB 14060 [from Jordan] (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:64 [ref. 12291]. Lectotype established (as figured specimen) in caption to Pl. 127, p. 3260 in Jordan & Evermann 1900 [ref. 2446] if figured specimen is identifiable. •Valid as Mugil hospes Jordan & Culver 1895 -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:41 [ref. 37559], Cervigón 1992:362 [ref. 23827], Allen & Robertson 1994:194 [ref. 22193], Harrison in Fischer et al. 1995:1298 [ref. 22830], Thomson 1997:490 [ref. 23428], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:185 [ref. 24550], Harrison 2003:1082 [ref. 27016], Nelson et al. 2004:97 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:63 [ref. 37547], Harrison et al. 2007:92 [ref. 29185], Durand et al. 2012:692 [ref. 32366], McMahan et al. 2013:446 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:99 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:118 [ref. 35745], Alvarez-Lajonchere & Alvarez-Lajonchere Ponce de León 2015:48 [ref. 34139], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:406 [ref. 34894] as hospens, Durand 2016:32 [ref. 35589], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:89 [ref. 35859], Neves et al. 2020:[7] [ref. 37442], Love et al. 2021:92 [ref. 39279]). Current status: Valid as Mugil hospes Jordan & Culver 1895. Mugilidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: brackish, marine.