ocellatus, Rhombus Agassiz [L.] in Spix & Agassiz 1831:85, Pl. 46 [Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam; ref. 13] Atlantic off Brazil. No types known. Type catalog: Desoutter et al. 2001:354 [ref. 25922]. •Valid as Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz 1831) -- (Gutherz 1967:41 [ref. 23862], Robins & Ray 1986:289 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:533 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:219 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:173 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:273 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:589 [ref. 16204], Cervigón 1996:29 [ref. 24489], Evseenko 1996:726 [ref. 24666], Evseenko 1998:59 [ref. 23643], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:342 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:170 [ref. 27754], Camargo & Isaac 2001:144 [ref. 27639], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:546 [ref. 26158], Collette et al. 2003:126 [ref. 26784], Munroe 2003:1891 [ref. 27118], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:105 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:68 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:179 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:824 [ref. 28815], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Page et al. 2013:187 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:85 [ref. 33341], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:182 [ref. 37485], Robertson et al. 2020:151 [ref. 38098], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:393 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:267 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz 1831). Bothidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mxico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.