platana, Lile Regan [C. T.] 1917:394 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 19 (no. 113); ref. 15126] Río de la Plata. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1908.8.29.15. See Cione et al. 1998:343 [ref. 23325] for comments on locality. •Valid as Platanichthys platana (Regan 1917) -- (Whitehead 1985:121 [ref. 5141], Cione et al. 1998:335 [ref. 23325], López et al. 2002:63 [ref. 26808], Kullander & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:37 [ref. 27061], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:41 [ref. 27192], López et al. 2003:8 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:71 [ref. 28131], Di Dario et al. 2011:550 [ref. 31478], Mabragaña et al. 2011:table S2 [ref. 31800], Di Dario et al. 2013:262 [ref. 37503], Fabiano et al. 2014:7 [ref. 33530], Litz & Koerber 2014:5 [ref. 33622], Mirande & Koerber 2015:9 [ref. 35117], Bertaco et al. 2016:411 [ref. 34561], Petry et al. 2016:300 [ref. 34966], Nión et al. 2016:26 [ref. 35565], Spier et al. 2018:6 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:5 [ref. 36717], Reis et al. 2020:456 [ref. 38364], Carvalho-Filho 2023:63 [ref. 40480], Loureiro et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40506]). Current status: Valid as Platanichthys platana (Regan 1917). Dorosomatidae. Distribution: South America: lagoons, estuaries and lower parts of rivers in southeastern South America (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.