pantostictum, Cichlasoma Taylor [J. N.] & Miller [R. R.] 1983:15, fig'd [Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas No. 104; ref. 8271] Laguna de Chairel near Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Holotype: UMMZ 207699. Paratypes: KU 19112 (2); TU 5650 (3); UMMZ 157315 (1), 164782 (1), 170951 (8), 192877 (1), 207700 (3), 209431 (3). Type catalog: Bart & Taylor 1993:65 [ref. 20906]. •Valid as Cichlasoma pantostictum Taylor & Miller 1983 -- (Conkel 1993:126 [ref. 22949], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:69 [ref. 22290], Nelson et al. 2004:152 [ref. 27807]). •Valid as "Cichlasoma" pantosticum Taylor & Miller 1983 -- (Miller 2006:366 [ref. 28615]). •Valid as Nandopsis pantosticta (Taylor & Miller 1983) -- (Burgess 2000:48 [ref. 24818] as pantostictum). •Valid as Nosferatu pantostictus (Taylor & Miller 1983) -- (McMahan et al. 2015:220 [ref. 33920]). •Valid as Herichthys pantostictus (Taylor & Miller 1983) -- (Kullander in Reis et al. 2003:636 [ref. 27061], Scharpf 2009:7 [ref. 30400], Page et al. 2013:156 [ref. 32708], De la Maza-Benignos & De Lordes Lozano-Vilano 2013:106 [ref. 32982], Paepke et al. 2014:55 [ref. 33351], Mejía et al. 2015:72 [ref. 33860], Říčan et al. 2016:40 [ref. 34357], Pérez-Miranda et al. 2017:AppendixS2 [ref. 35682], Pérez-Miranda et al. 2020:11 [ref. 37473], Artigas Azas 2022:11 [ref. 39184], Page et al. 2023:136 [ref. 40505], Pérez-Miranda et al. 2023:230 [ref. 40671]). Current status: Valid as Herichthys pantostictus (Taylor & Miller 1983). Cichlidae: Cichlinae. Distribution: Southern North America: Tamesí-Pánuco river basin, Atlantic slope of (northern Mexico). IUCN (2019): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.