Species that contain: Atherina and hepsetus [ 6 ] records

athaerina, Athaerina Nardo [G. D.] 1827:33, 39 [Giornale di fisica, chimica e storia naturale, medicina, ed arti. (series 2) Dec. II, v. 10; ref. 3146] Istria, Croatia; Marseille, France; [Iviza] Ibiza, Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean Sea, Greece. Syntypes: ?MNHN. Original genus should have been Atherina, corrected by Nardo 1827:481 [ref. 19740]. Based in part on the Atherina of Rondeletius 1554:216, fig. [ref. 30354]; see Nardo 1827:39 [ref. 3146] and Nardo 1827:487 [ref. 19740]. •Synonym of Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Kottelat 1997:160 [ref. 22952], de Morais et al. 2016:2116 [ref. 34600]). Current status: Synonym of Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus 1758. Atherinidae: Atherininae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

brownii, Atherina Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1397 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] Atlantic and Pacifics. No types known. •Synonym of Anchoa hepsetus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Whitehead et al. 1988:355 [ref. 5725], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:129 [ref. 24550]). Current status: Synonym of Anchoa hepsetus (Linnaeus 1758). Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

hepsetus, Atherina Linnaeus [C.] 1758:315 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.79 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin), NRM 65 (5). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:229-230 [ref. 20707] who suggested a putative lectotype to agree with current literature, Wheeler 1958:236-237 [ref. 13434]. •Valid as Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Kiener & Spillmann 1973:576 [ref. 7217], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:1208 [ref. 13677], Maugé 1990:604 [ref. 17126], Kottelat 1997:160 [ref. 22952], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:58 [ref. 26753], Miller 2003:45 [ref. 27342], Fricke et al. 2007:68 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:470 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:65 [ref. 30517], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:33 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:192 [ref. 33547], Çiçek et al. 2015:150 [ref. 35151], de Morais et al. 2016:2116 [ref. 34600], Vasil'eva 2017:795 [ref. 35714], Artüz & Fricke 2019:554 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:197 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:95 [ref. 36864], Kovačić et al. 2020:29 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:9 [ref. 38576], Kovačić et al. 2021:51 [ref. 39014], Niță et al. 2022:29 [ref. 40471]). Current status: Valid as Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus 1758. Atherinidae: Atherininae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic: Galicia (Spain) south to Morocco, including Madeira and Canary Islands; introduced elsewhere. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

hepsetus, Atherina Forsskål [P. S.] 1775:69, xiii [Descriptiones animalium (Forsskål); ref. 1351] Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Holotype: ZMUC 101. Apparently independent of Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus 1758; if so then objectively invalid. 1°Homonym. Atherinidae: Atherininae.

hepsetus, Clupea Martens [G. M. von] 1824:412 [Reise nach Venedig.; ref. 17602] Venice, Italy, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Based on several other sources. Current status: Unknown. Atherinidae: Atherininae. Habitat: brackish.

menidia, Atherina Linnaeus [C.] 1766:519 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] Carolina [South Carolina, U.S.A]; Jamaica (erroneous). No types known. Based on multiple sources, including the Menidia, corpore subpellucido ... of Browne 1756:441 [ref. 30188] [Jamaica], the 'Argentina linea lata argentea in lateribus' of Gronow 1763:112 [ref. 1910] [Jamaica], and the 'Silverfish' in a manuscript description by A. Garden [South Carolina]. Species epithet misspelled maenidia by Cuvier 1831:173 [ref. 30376]. •Valid as Chirostoma menidium (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Herrera 1896:42 [ref. 39336] with author as Gill). •In part synonym of Anchoa hepsetus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Whitehead et al. 1988:355 [ref. 5725] in family Engraulidae). •Valid as Menidia menidia (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Lee et al. 1980:560 [ref. 22416], Smith 1986:415 [ref. 22186], Robins & Ray 1986:113 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:316 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:124 [ref. 14674], Murdy et al. 1997:131 [ref. 23144], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:164 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:153 [ref. 27754], Chernoff in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:282 [ref. 26158], Chernoff 2003:1103 [ref. 27017], Nelson et al. 2004:99 [ref. 27807], García-Hernández et al. 2009:92 [ref. 37265], Page et al. 2013:100 [ref. 32708], Robins et al. 2018:435 [ref. 35886], Page et al. 2023:140 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Menidia menidia (Linnaeus 1766). Atherinopsidae: Menidiinae. Distribution: Northwestern Atlantic, including Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.