saxatilis, Johnius Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:75 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] New York, U.S.A. Holotype (unique): ZMB 8792 (stuffed). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:129 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Menticirrhus saxatilis (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Chao 1978:31 [ref. 6983], Smith 1986:434 [ref. 22186], Robins & Ray 1986:187 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:146 [ref. 23239], Murdy et al. 1997:197 [ref. 23144], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:373 [ref. 24550], Klein-MacPhee in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:442 [ref. 26158], Chao 2003:1628 [ref. 27097], Nelson et al. 2004:148 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:433 [ref. 28815], García-Hernández et al. 2009:93 [ref. 37265], Page et al. 2013:152 [ref. 32708], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Parenti 2020:29 [ref. 37439], Marceniuk et al. 2020:328 [ref. 37705], Page et al. 2023:209 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Menticirrhus saxatilis (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Sciaenidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts south to southern Florida (U.S.A.), and Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: brackish, marine.