Trachinotus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:78 Masc. Scomber falcatus Forsskål 1775. Type by monotypy. Trachynotus Agassiz 1846:373, 374 [ref. 64] and authors is an unjustified emendation; as emended is apparently preoccupied by use of name by Latreille 1829 in Coleoptera and Gravenhorst 1829 in Hymenoptera. Type species also preoccupied; next available name is Caesiomorus blochii Lacepède 1801. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:20 (vol. 8) [ref. 30473]. •Valid as Trachinotus Lacepède 1801 -- (Hureau & Tortonese 1973:383 [ref. 7198] as Trachynotus, Gushiken in Masuda et al. 1984:154 [ref. 6441], Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. 1986:840 [ref. 13676], Smith-Vaniz 1986:658 [ref. 5718], Daget & Smith-Vaniz 1986:319 [ref. 6207], Bauchot in Lévêque et al. 1992:682 [ref. 21590], Lin & Shao 1999:64 [ref. 23921], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:278 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz 1999:2667 [ref. 24833], Smith-Vaniz 2003:1435 [ref. 27083], Hoese & Gates 2006:1169 [ref. 28997], Vreven & Snoeks 2007:419 [ref. 30078], Kimura 2009:126 [ref. 30425], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:45 [ref. 36649], Frabel et al. 2013:122 [ref. 32553], Hussain & Jawad 2014:253 [ref. 33657], Fricke et al. 2018:187 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:86 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:169 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:149 [ref. 36673], Smith-Vaniz & Walsh 2019:1 [ref. 36875]). Current status: Valid as Trachinotus Lacepède 1801. Carangidae: Trachinotinae.