ensifera, Sciaena Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:313 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 1 (for 1881); ref. 2471] Panama (Pacific); Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. Syntypes: USNM 29316 (1), 29442 (1), 29464 (1), 29506 (1), 29526 (1). •Valid as Bairdiella ensifera (Jordan & Gilbert 1882) -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:158 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:132 [ref. 23101], Chao in Fischer et al. 1995:1448 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:265 [ref. 24545], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:324 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:385 [ref. 24550], Nelson et al. 2004:146 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:151 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:117 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:404 [ref. 34894] as Bardiella, González-Murcia et al. 2019:307 [ref. 36544], Marceniuk et al. 2019:16 [ref. 36684], Parenti 2020:9 [ref. 37439], Page et al. 2023:208 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:383 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Bairdiella ensifera (Jordan & Gilbert 1882). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern Mexico south to Peru. Habitat: brackish, marine.