lanceolatus, Chaetodon Linnaeus [C.] (ex Edwards) 1758:277 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India [erroneous, should be Bahamas]. No types known. Based on the “Ribband-fish” of Edwards 1750:210, Pl. 210 (middle fig.) [ref. 38737]. •Valid as Equetus lanceolatus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Chao 1978:27 [ref. 6983], Uyeno & Sato in Uyeno et al. 1983:362 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:186 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:144 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:403 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:269 [ref. 24474], Andreata & Séret 1996:586 [ref. 16204], Aguilera 1998:51 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:270 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:162 [ref. 27754], Schwartz 2001:129 [ref. 25391], Rocha & Rosa 2001:990 [ref. 25909], Collette et al. 2003:110 [ref. 26784], Chao 2003:1617 [ref. 27097], Casatti & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:87 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:37 [ref. 27621], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:424 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:151 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:57 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:20 [ref. 34324], Robertson et al. 2020:161 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:80 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:74 [ref. 39585]). •Valid as Eques lanceolatus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Parenti 2020:18 [ref. 37439], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:634 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:175 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:209 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Eques lanceolatus (Linnaeus 1758). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to São Paulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2020): Least concern (as Equetus lanceolatus). Habitat: marine.