pectinatus, Centropomus Poey [F.] 1860:121, Pl. 13 (fig. 6) [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 3499] Havana, Cuba. Neotype: CAS-SU 1602. Neotype designated by Rivas 1986:591 [ref. 5210]. •Valid as Centropomus pectinatus Poey 1860 -- (Fraser 1968:433 [ref. 21275], Lee et al. 1980:571 [ref. 22416], Villa 1982:162 [ref. 36708], Rivas 1986:591 [ref. 5210], Robins & Ray 1986:129 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1991:311 [ref. 24472], Bussing 1987:169 [ref. 22927], Cervigón 1992:297 [ref. 23827], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:95 [ref. 24545], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:144 [ref. 22947], Bussing 1998:269 [ref. 24179], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:254 [ref. 24550], Musick et al. 2000:15 [ref. 24959], Camargo & Isaac 2001:141 [ref. 27639], Orrell 2003:1291 [ref. 27053], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:74 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:21 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:125 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:102 [ref. 28815], Miller 2006:328 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:17 [ref. 31241], Page et al. 2013:129 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:999 [ref. 33194], Schmidt & McMullin 2015:4 [ref. 36603] as pectinatis, Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:251 [ref. 35886], Carvalho-Filho et al. 2019:88 [ref. 36975], Figueiredo-Filho et al. 2021:325 [ref. 38206], Marceniuk et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:484 [ref. 38945], Seyoum et al. 2022:474 [ref. 40439], Angulo et al. 2023:40 [ref. 40676], Carvalho-Filho 2023:110 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Centropomus pectinatus Poey 1860. Centropomidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) south to Paraná (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.