orqueta, Chloroscombrus Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1883:646 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 5 (no. 334) (for 26 June 1883); ref. 10616] (Pacific) Panama. Syntypes: BMNH 1903.5.15.188 (1); USNM 29165 (3), 29278 (?now 0), 29285 (1), 29343 (? now 0). •Synonym of Chloroscombrus chrysurus (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Daget & Smith-Vaniz 1986:314 [ref. 6207]). •Valid as Chloroscombrus orqueta Jordan & Gilbert 1883 -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:34 [ref. 39147], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:208 [ref. 9277], Allen & Robertson 1994:126 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:106 [ref. 23101], Lea & Walker 1995:90 [ref. 23105], Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995:962 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:83 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:360 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:277 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:282 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz 2003:1444 [ref. 27083], Nelson et al. 2004:140 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:117 [ref. 37547], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:30 [ref. 31826], McMahan et al. 2013:449 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32708], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:395 [ref. 34894], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:458 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:236 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:298 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:153 [ref. 39279], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:204 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Chloroscombrus orqueta Jordan & Gilbert 1883. Carangidae: Caranginae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Malpelo Island (Colombia). Habitat: brackish, marine.