brevirostris, Gerres Sauvage [H.-E.] 1879:208 [Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (7th Série) v. 3; ref. 13259] Río Guayas, Ecuador. Lectotype: MNHN A-0874. Paralectotype: MNHN 1986-0662 (1). Type catalog: Bauchot & Desoutter 1989:15 [ref. 15502]. The Diapterus peruvianus of authors. Lectotype selected by González-Acosta et al. 2007:375 [ref. 34191]. •Synonym of Diapterus peruvianus (Cuvier 1830) -- (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:322 [ref. 24550]). •Valid as Diapterus brevirostris (Sauvage 1879) -- (González-Acosta et al. 2007:370 [ref. 34191], Palacios-Salgado et al. 2014:238 [ref. 36362], Vergara-Solana et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33272], Fourriére et al. 2016:446 [ref. 34668] with author as Cuvier 1830, Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:91 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:303 [ref. 36544], Angulo 2021:11 [ref. 38913], Love et al. 2021:160 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:20 [ref. 41326], Angulo et al. 2023:70 [ref. 40676], Page et al. 2023:173 [ref. 40505], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:10 [ref. 40981], Arronte et al. 2024:2 [ref. 41355]). Current status: Valid as Diapterus brevirostris (Sauvage 1879). Gerreidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including central and southern Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Invasive on Atlantic coast of Spain (northeastern Atlantic). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.