hawaiensis, Elops Regan [C. T.] 1909:39 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 3 (no. 13); ref. 14414] Hawaiian Islands. Syntypes: BMNH 1883.12.15.93-94 (2). •Synonym of Elops saurus Linnaeus 1766 -- (Okada 1961:290 [ref. 6363]). •Valid as Elops hawaiensis Regan 1909 -- (Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:21 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:30 [ref. 25477] as hawaiiensis, Paxton et al. 1989:104 [ref. 12442], Allen 1991:37 [ref. 21090], Gomon et al. 1994:194 [ref. 22532], Allen 1997:50 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:346 [ref. 23967], Smith 1999:1619 [ref. 24661], Johnson 1999:720 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:188 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:584 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:97 [ref. 26368], Sakai et al. 2001:84 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:188 [ref. 26001], Randall et al. 2004:5 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:24 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:108 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:221 [ref. 28994], Randall 2007:51 [ref. 30952], Bray 2008:155 [ref. 30620], Motomura et al. 2010:69 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:348 [ref. 31242], Larson et al. 2013:23 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:33 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:17 [ref. 34464], Morgan et al. 2014:33 [ref. 36567], Motomura et al. 2017:27 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:16 [ref. 36460] as hawaiiensis, Koeda in Koeda & Ho 2019:80 [ref. 42208], Kim et al. 2020:51 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:16 [ref. 37637], Taki et al. 2021:52 [ref. 39830], Sousa et al. 2022:2 [ref. 40398], Jamandre 2023:166 [ref. 40455], Endruweit 2024:38 [ref. 41040], Giat et al. 2026:5 [ref. 43308]). Current status: Valid as Elops hawaiensis Regan 1909. Elopidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Korea and Japan, south to northwestern Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. IUCN (2022): Data Deficient. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.