phoxocephalum, Cynoscion Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882:318 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 1 (for 1881); ref. 2471] (Pacific) Panama. Syntypes: USNM 29296 (1), 29339 (1), 29389 (1, not found in 1980), 29724 (1). •Valid as Cynoscion phoxocephalus Jordan & Gilbert 1882 -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:159 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:128 [ref. 23101], Chao in Fischer et al. 1995:1458 [ref. 22830], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:266 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:424 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:317 [ref. 24555], Béarez 2001:61 [ref. 26028], Chao 2002:12 [ref. 26250] dated 1881, Nelson et al. 2004:147 [ref. 27807], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Page et al. 2013:151 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:117 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:405 [ref. 34894], González-Murcia et al. 2019:307 [ref. 36544], Parenti 2020:15 [ref. 37439], Love et al. 2021:165 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:20 [ref. 41326], Page et al. 2023:209 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:388 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Cynoscion phoxocephalus Jordan & Gilbert 1882. Sciaenidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: El Salvador south to Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.