pinnimaculatus, Aelurichthys Steindachner [F.] 1876:565 [15], Pl. 8 [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 72 (1. Abth.); ref. 18772] Panama; Altata, Panama; western coast of Costa Rica. Syntypes: (several) MCZ 4941 (1), 23746-47 (3, 1); NMW 47895 (1), 47897-99 (1, 1, 1, 1), 50577 (1); USNM 123011 [ex MCZ 23746] (2) Panama. Type catalog: Ferraris & Vari 1992:6 [ref. 19771], Ferraris 2007:38 [ref. 29155]. On p. 15 of separate. •Valid as Felichthys pinnimaculatus (Steindachner 1876) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:25 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Bagre pinnimaculatus (Steindachner 1876) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:13 [ref. 9708], Burgess 1989:167 [ref. 12860], Allen & Robertson 1994:68 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:56 [ref. 23101], Kailola & Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995:878 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:59 [ref. 24545], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:159 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:142 [ref. 24550], Marceniuk & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:449 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:83 [ref. 27807], Kailola 2004:129 [ref. 28108], Acero P. et al. 2005:129 [ref. 28551], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:31 [ref. 29031], Betancur-R. et al. 2007:349 [ref. 29268], Page et al. 2013:82 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:115 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:398 [ref. 34894], Marceniuk et al. 2022:16 [ref. 39036], Angulo et al. 2023:29 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:272 [ref. 41235], Marceniuk et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40422], Page et al. 2023:78 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:135 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Bagre pinnimaculatus (Steindachner 1876). Ariidae: Bagreinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific draining rivers from Gulf of California south to Ecuador (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama). Habitat: brackish, marine.