hians, Belone Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:432, Pl. 548 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Bahia, Brazil. Lectotype: MNHN B-1125. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-1204 (1). Type catalog: Collette et al. 1997:7 [ref. 22813]. Lectotype selected by Collette & Parin 1970:40 [ref. 7415]. •Valid as Belone hians Valenciennes 1846 -- (Mees 1962:29 [ref. 13277]). •Valid as Ablennes hians (Valenciennes 1846) -- (Collette & Berry 1965:391 [ref. 13367], Parin 1967:45 [ref. 10272], Collette & Parin 1970:37 [ref. 7415], Kyushin et al. 1977:36 [ref. 19756], Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:199 [ref. 14275], Dor 1984:64 [ref. 29757], Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:78 [ref. 6441], Collette 1986:386 [ref. 5647], Robins & Ray 1986:106 [ref. 23100], Allen & Swainston 1988:40 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:341 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:15 [ref. 13251], Collette & Parin 1990:592 [ref. 16473], Cervigón 1991:224 [ref. 24472], Francis 1993:159 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:16 [ref. 25356], Boschung 1992:83 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:269 [ref. 23827], Allen & Robertson 1994:90 [ref. 22193], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:921 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:86 [ref. 22896], Franke & Acero P. 1996:765 [ref. 22923], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:173 [ref. 27969], Murdy et al. 1997:117 [ref. 23144], Allen 1997:64 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:24 [ref. 26476], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:69 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:266 [ref. 24023], Carpenter et al. 1997:127 [ref. 23922], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:934 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:104 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:116 [ref. 24106], Collette 1999:2154 [ref. 24785], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:165 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:70 [ref. 25466], Johnson 1999:724 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:8 [ref. 25829], Keith et al. 2000:28 [ref. 24547], Nakabo 2000:562 [ref. 25086], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:599 [ref. 25122], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:153 [ref. 27754], Hutchins 2001:24 [ref. 25847], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:287 [ref. 26158], Nakabo 2002:562 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:219, 545 [ref. 26218], Feitoza et al. 2003:68 [ref. 26943], Collette 2003:1107 [ref. 26981], Collette 2003:2 [ref. 27306], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S100 [ref. 27377], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:67 [ref. 27192], Myers & Donaldson 2003:615 [ref. 27495], Smith et al. 2003:14 [ref. 27621], Randall et al. 2004:8 [ref. 27624], Nelson et al. 2004:99 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3317 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:126 [ref. 28072], Love et al. 2005:63 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:281 [ref. 28379], Randall 2005:80 [ref. 28239], Vaske et al. 2005:77 [ref. 36155], Paxton et al. 2006:716 [ref. 28995], Wirtz et al. 2007:28 [ref. 30263], Fricke et al. 2009:31 [ref. 30213], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:82 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:371 [ref. 31242], Page et al. 2013:102 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:64 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:63 [ref. 34464], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:32 [ref. 33341], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:111 [ref. 36167], Psomadakis et al. 2015:175 [ref. 34104], Struthers 2015:950 [ref. 34261], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:145 [ref. 34871], Collette 2016:2122 [ref. 34601], Fourriére et al. 2016:456 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Motomura et al. 2017:66 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:314 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:105 [ref. 35805], Collette & Bemis 2019:8 [ref. 37342], Golani & Fricke 2018:42 [ref. 36273], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:61 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:21 [ref. 37020], Golani 2019:410 [ref. 36826], Hoschke et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36626], Reiner 2019:130 [ref. 38139], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 11 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:81 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:335 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:40 [ref. 37637], Akash et al. 2021:8 [ref. 38095], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:315 [ref. 38945], Deidun et al. 2021:10 [ref. 38753], Golani 2021:31 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:52 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:95 [ref. 39279], Collette 2022:375 [ref. 39718], Fermon et al. 2022:268 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:19 [ref. 41326], Carvalho-Filho 2023:91 [ref. 40480], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:187 [ref. 40816], Page et al. 2023:149 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Ablennes hians (Valenciennes 1846). Belonidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Red Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea, Sea of Japan); eastern and central Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.