amblyrhynchus, Caranx Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1833:100, Pl. 248 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 9; ref. 1002] Brazil. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-5843 (2). Type catalog: Smith-Vaniz et al. 1979:8 [ref. 12247]. •Valid as Hemicaranx amblyrhynchus (Cuvier 1833) -- (Baughman 1947:280 [ref. 41409], Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:333 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:161 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:132 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:288 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:79 [ref. 24474], González Bencomo et al. 1997:158 [ref. 24960], Aguilera 1998:49 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:289 [ref. 24550], Keith et al. 2000:96 [ref. 24547], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], López et al. 2002:64 [ref. 26808] as amblirhynchus, Smith-Vaniz 2003:1449 [ref. 27083], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:80 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:140 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:286 [ref. 28815], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:30 [ref. 31826], Di Dario et al. 2013:263 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:1000 [ref. 33194], Fabiano et al. 2014:9 [ref. 33530] spelled amblirhynchus, Smith-Vaniz in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2490 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:48 [ref. 35565], Marceniuk et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35324] as cf. amblyrhynchus, Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:345 [ref. 36407], Spier et al. 2018:11 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:5 [ref. 36717], Bagley et al. 2023:318 [ref. 41241], Marceniuk in Marceniuk et al. 2021:349 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:141 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:129 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Hemicaranx amblyrhynchus (Cuvier 1833). Carangidae: Caranginae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.