cataphracta, Trigla Linnaeus [C.] 1758:300 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Southern France, Mediterranean Sea. Holotype: NRM 31. Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:233 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Peristedium cataphractum (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Herrera 1896:64 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Peristedion cataphractum (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Blanc & Hureau 1973:591 [ref. 7218], Hureau in Whitehead et al. 1986:1239 [ref. 13677], Richards & Saksena 1990:685 [ref. 17757], Santos et al. 1997:127 [ref. 23531], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:75 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:34 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:78 [ref. 29533], Kawai 2008:24 [ref. 29787], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:40 [ref. 36649], Goren & Galil 2015:518 [ref. 33910], Richards & Miller 2016:2296 [ref. 34617], Martins & Carneiro 2018:119 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:556 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:236 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:96 [ref. 36864], Reiner 2019:160 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:105 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:39 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:69 [ref. 38883], Golani 2021:38 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:73 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:293 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Peristedion cataphractum (Linnaeus 1758). Triglidae: Peristediinae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: English Channel south to Angola, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: brackish, marine.