Species that contain: Micrometrus and aggregatus [ 1 ] records

aggregatus, Cymatogaster Gibbons [W. P.] 1854:p. 2, col. 3 [Daily Placer Times and Transcript [newspaper] v. 5 (no. 1274); ref. 5207] San Francisco Bay, California, U.S.A. No types known. Appeared first in newspaper as above; then in Gibbons 1854:106 [ref. 18929]; as Micrometrus aggregatus in Gibbons 1854:125 [ref. 1610]. •Valid as Cymatogaster aggregatus Gibbons 1854 -- (Herrera 1896:57 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons 1854 -- (Tarp 1952:72 [ref. 12250], Lee et al. 1980:776 [ref. 22416], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:228 [ref. 9277], McAllister 1990:153 [ref. 14674], Swift et al. 1993:131 [ref. 22379], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:393 [ref. 24550], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:662 [ref. 25968], Moyle 2002:428 [ref. 26449], Wydoski & Whitney 2003:192 [ref. 27816], Nelson et al. 2004:153 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:132 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:158 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:56 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:256 [ref. 35888], Longo et al. 2018:595 [ref. 36149], Burton & Lea 2019:79 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:172 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:160 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Cymatogaster aggregata Gibbons 1854. Embiotocidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southeastern Alaska (U.S.A.) south to Pacific coast of northern Baja California (U.S.A.). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.