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Species in the genus Pellona: [ 15 ] records

altamazonica, Pellona Cope [E. D.] 1872:256 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 23; ref. 921] Río Ambyiacu, Peru. No types at ANSP. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:62 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141], de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061]). •Valid as Pellona altamazonica Cope 1872 -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298]). Current status: Valid as Pellona altamazonica Cope 1872. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: South America: upper Amazon basin (Peru). Habitat: freshwater.

argentata, Ilisha Meek [S. E.] & Hildebrand [S. F.] 1923:190, Pl. 9 [Field Museum of Natural History, Publications, Zoölogical Series v. 15 (publ. 215); ref. 2963] Fox Bay, Colón, (Atlantic) Panama. Holotype: USNM 81749. Paratypes: FMNH 25564-78 (1 ea.); USNM 79499 (2), 79521 (3), 79526 (1), 79527 (1), 79531-32 (3, 1), 79535-36 (1, 1), 79544-45 (1, 1). Type catalog: Ibarra & Stewart 1987:49 [ref. 12367]. •Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917) -- (Whitehead 1985:283 [ref. 5141], Munroe 2003:803 [ref. 26996]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917). Pristigasteridae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

castelnaeana, Pellona Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:306 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Mouth of Amazon River, Brazil. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3705. Paralectotypes: MNHN 0000-3706 (1). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:293 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:21 [ref. 9739]. Lectotype selected by Whitehead 1967:108 [ref. 6464]. •Valid as Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141], Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Le Guennec 1992:150 [ref. 22388], de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Munroe 2003:798 [ref. 26996], Barriga Salazar 2014:104 [ref. 35745], Sarmiento et al. 2014:96, 187 [ref. 35004], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:383 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298], Carvalho-Filho 2023:66 [ref. 40480], Koerber et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40665]). Current status: Valid as Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

dayi, Pellona Wongratana [T.] 1983:395, Fig. 12 [Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 29 (no. 4); ref. 8265] Porto Novo, southern India. Holotype: BMNH 1969.11.6.17. Paratypes: BMNH 1889.2.1.2002-2006 (5), 1969.11.6.15-16 (2). •Valid as Pellona dayi Wongratana 1983 -- (Whitehead 1985:280 [ref. 5141]). Current status: Valid as Pellona dayi Wongratana 1983. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Indian Ocean. Habitat: brackish, marine.

deauratus, Ilisha Nakashima [S.] 1941:77, Fig. [Boletín del Museo de Historia Natural "Javier Prado" v. 5 (no. 16); ref. 13189] Amazon River basin, eastern Peru. Syntypes: ?MHNJP [= MUSM]. •Synonym of Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847 -- (Whitehead 1985:279 [ref. 5141] as desuratus, de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:43 [ref. 27061]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona castelnaeana Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

ditchela, Pellona Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:314 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Vizagapatam, India. No types known. Type catalog: Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:44 [ref. 9739]. Based on Russell 1803:72, Pl. 188. •Valid as Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847 -- (Poll et al. 1984:48 [ref. 6172], Whitehead 1985:281 [ref. 5141], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:202 [ref. 6284], Allen & Swainston 1988:30 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:156 [ref. 12442], Ataur Rahman 1989:254 [ref. 24860], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:124 [ref. 20764], Kottelat et al. 1993:20 [ref. 23448], Randall 1995:70 [ref. 22896], Reinthal & Stiassny 1997:354 [ref. 22780], Allen 1997:50 [ref. 23977], Munroe et al. 1999:1769 [ref. 24728], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:588 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:18 [ref. 25847], Zhang 2001:109 [ref. 26586], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Khan 2003:7 [ref. 27710], Seegers et al. 2003:30 [ref. 28087], Ataur Rahman 2003:278 [ref. 31338], Gates et al. 2006:319 [ref. 29008], Larson et al. 2013:33 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:51 [ref. 32989], Fricke et al. 2014:24 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:162 [ref. 34104], Fricke et al. 2018:51 [ref. 35805], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 6 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:304 [ref. 37272], Anderson 2022:164 [ref. 39690], Jamandre 2023:164 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa and Madagascar east to Philippines and Papua New Guinea, north to Philippines, south to northern Western Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

flavipinnis, Pristigaster Valenciennes [A.] 1837:Pl. 10 (fig. 2) [Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale; ref. 20720] Buenos Aires, Argentina. No types known. Type catalog: Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:45-46 [ref. 9739]. Name available from plate, description in Valenciennes 1847:8 [ref. 5010] as Pellone orbignyanum. In Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:302 [ref. 1012] as Pellona orbignyana. Pl. 10 dates to 1837. •Valid as Ilisha flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Gómez & Chebez 1996:46 [ref. 23791], Munroe 2003:798 [ref. 26996], Menni 2004:71 [ref. 28131]). •Valid as Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Whitehead 1985:282 [ref. 5141], Cervigón 1991:91 [ref. 24472], Le Guennec 1992:150 [ref. 22388], Cervigón 1992:390 [ref. 23827], Planquette et al. 1996:80 [ref. 22818], Sverlij et al. 1998:8 [ref. 27632] dated 1849, Britski et al. 1999:22 [ref. 24147], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639] dated 1847, de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:44 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:8 [ref. 27366], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Litz & Koerber 2014:6 [ref. 33622], Sarmiento et al. 2014:96, 187 [ref. 35004], Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321], Mirande & Koerber 2015:10 [ref. 35117], Vera-Alcaraz & Vuletich 2016:3 [ref. 35084], Nión et al. 2016:25 [ref. 35565], Koerber et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35267], Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:388 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:66 [ref. 40480], Loureiro et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40506]). Current status: Valid as Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837). Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Widespread in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Uruguay. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

harroweri, Ilisha Fowler [H. W.] 1917:128, Fig. 1 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 69; ref. 15092] Colón, (Atlantic) Panama. Holotype (unique): ANSP 46959. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:62 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917) -- (Whitehead 1985:283 [ref. 5141], Cervigón 1991:91 [ref. 24472], Le Guennec 1992:150 [ref. 22388], Cervigón 1992:390 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:582 [ref. 16204], Planquette et al. 1996:80 [ref. 22818], González Bencomo et al. 1997:158 [ref. 24960], Aguilera 1998:46 [ref. 24221] as haroweri, Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192] dated 1919, Munroe 2003:803 [ref. 26996], Catelani et al. 2014:931 [ref. 37496], Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], Spier et al. 2018:7 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:6 [ref. 36717], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:133 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:66 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917). Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Panama south to southern Brazil. Habitat: brackish, marine.

hoevenii, Pellona Bleeker [P.] 1852:21 [Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. v. 24 (8); ref. 16826] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Syntypes: RMNH 7118 (1). Bleeker specimens: AMS I.91 (1), BMNH 1867.11.28.15 (1), NMV A940 (2). Putative neotype proposed by Whitehead et al. 1966:91 [ref. 6860]. •Synonym of Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847 -- (Poll et al. 1984:48 [ref. 6172], Whitehead 1985:281 [ref. 5141], Munroe et al. 1999:1769 [ref. 24728], Ataur Rahman 2003:278 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:51 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

mayrinki, Neosteus Pinto [S. Y.] 1972:2, Figs. 1-2 [Boletim do Museu de História Natural U.F.M.G. (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Belo Horizonte, Zoologia No. 14; ref. 7636] Cajueiro Lagoon, Luzilandia, Piaui State, Brazil. Holotype: MHNI 130. Paratypes: DNOCS 09 P (1), MHNI 131 (1). •Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1817) -- (Whitehead 1985:283 [ref. 5141]). •Valid as Pellona mayrinki (Pinto 1972) -- (Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192]). Current status: Valid as Pellona mayrinki (Pinto 1972). Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Brazil. Habitat: brackish.

narragansetae, Ilisha Fowler [H. W.] 1911:208, Fig. 1 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 63; ref. 1382] Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. (questionable). Holotype (unique): ANSP 15314. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:63 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917) -- (Whitehead 1985:283 [ref. 5141]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917). Pristigasteridae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

natalensis, Pellona Gilchrist [J. D. F.] & Thompson [W. W.] 1908:202 [Annals of the South African Museum v. 6 (pt 2); ref. 14320] South Head Tugela River, South Africa, depth 24 fathoms. Holotype (unique): SAM 9934. •Synonym of Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847 -- (Poll et al. 1984:48 [ref. 6172], Whitehead 1985:281 [ref. 5141], Munroe et al. 1999:1769 [ref. 24728], Kottelat 2013:51 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona ditchela Valenciennes 1847. Pristigasteridae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

orbignyana, Pellona Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:302 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Buenos Aires, Argentina. No types known. Type catalog: Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:45 [ref. 9739]. Based on a drawing. •Synonym of Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Whitehead 1985:282 [ref. 5141], de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:44 [ref. 27061], Litz & Koerber 2014:6 [ref. 33622], Mirande & Koerber 2015:10 [ref. 35117], Vera-Alcaraz & Vuletich 2016:3 [ref. 35084], Koerber et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35267]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837). Pristigasteridae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

ternetzi, Neosteus Norman [J. R.] 1923:593 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9) v. 12 (no. 71) (art. 61); ref. 15418] Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Syntypes: BMNH 1923.7.30.31-35 (5). •Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917) -- (Whitehead 1985:283 [ref. 5141]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917). Pristigasteridae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

vanderbilti, Pristigaster Borodin [N. A.] 1928:6, Pl. 1 (fig. 1) [Bulletin Vanderbilt Oceanographic Museum v. 1 (art. 1); ref. 526] Limon Bay, Panama (Atlantic). Holotype (unique): VMM 12 (now at AMNH). •Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917) -- (Whitehead 1985:283 [ref. 5141]). Current status: Synonym of Pellona harroweri (Fowler 1917). Pristigasteridae. Habitat: brackish, marine.