herzbergii, Silurus Bloch [M. E.] 1794:33, Pl. 367 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 8; ref. 463] Suriname. Syntypes: ZMB 2962 (1), 8785 (1, right skin). Type catalog: Paepke 1999:46 [ref. 24282], Ferraris 2007:53 [ref. 29155] On p. 24 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 11 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Arius herzbergii (Bloch 1794) -- (Burgess 1989:168 [ref. 12860], Cervigón 1991:135 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:257 [ref. 23827], González Bencomo et al. 1997:158 [ref. 24960], Aguilera 1998:47 [ref. 24221], Le Bail et al. 2000:16 [ref. 24549], Marín 2000:67 [ref. 26252], Camargo & Isaac 2001:145 [ref. 27639], Marceniuk & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:41 [ref. 27192]). •Valid as Selanaspis herzbergii (Bloch 1794) -- (Acero P. & Betancur-R. 2002:10 [ref. 26521], Acero P. 2003:851 [ref. 26998]). •Valid as Hexanematichthys herzbergii (Bloch 1794) -- (Marceniuk & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:451 [ref. 27061]). •Valid as Sciades herzbergii (Bloch 1794) -- (Kailola 2004:143 [ref. 28108], Marceniuk 2005:99 [ref. 28718], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:108 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:53 [ref. 29155], Betancur-R. et al. 2007:347 [ref. 29268], Marceniuk et al. 2012:668 [ref. 32225], Marceniuk et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35324], Costa et al. 2017:45 [ref. 35684], Marceniuk in Marceniuk et al. 2021:171 [ref. 38945], Koerber et al. 2022:63 [ref. 39235], Marceniuk et al. 2023:21 [ref. 40422], Lutz et al. 2024:8 [ref. 41548]). Current status: Valid as Sciades herzbergii (Bloch 1794). Ariidae: Ariinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Caribbean and Atlantic draining rivers and estuaries from Colombia to Brazil (Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.