punctata, Trigla Bloch [M. E.] 1793:125, Pl. 353 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 7; ref. 4868] Martinique Island, West Indies. No types known. Type catalog: Paepke & Fricke 1992:277 [ref. 19946] wrongly with a holotype, Paepke 1999:152 [ref. 24282]. On p. 100 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 10 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Prionotus punctatus (Bloch 1793) -- (Herrera 1896:64 [ref. 39336], Miller & Richards 1991:760 [ref. 15981], Cervigón 1991:303 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:453 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:585 [ref. 16204] dated 1797, Piacentino 1996:8 [ref. 25655], Aguilera 1998:48 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:242 [ref. 24550], López et al. 2002:64 [ref. 26808], Richards & Miller 2003:1275 [ref. 27049], Moura & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:74 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:117 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:64 [ref. 28815], García-Hernández et al. 2009:92 [ref. 37265], Mabragaña et al. 2011:table S2 [ref. 31800], Page et al. 2013:120 [ref. 32708], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496], Fabiano et al. 2014:8 [ref. 33530], Nión et al. 2016:45 [ref. 35565], Marceniuk et al. 2017:40 [ref. 35324], Spier et al. 2018:9 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:8 [ref. 36717], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:614 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:104 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:182 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Prionotus punctatus (Bloch 1793). Triglidae: Prionotinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Mexico south to Argentina, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.