proboscideus, Mugil Günther [A.] 1861:459, Figs. [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Pacific coast of Central America. Syntypes: (at least 14) BMNH 1860.7.21.22 (1) Cordova, 1861.8.13.4 (1) Panama; ZMB 5420 (?) Panama. Also appeared as new in Günther 1862:375 [6] [ref. 1968]. •Valid as Chaenomugil proboscideus (Günther 1861) -- (Allen & Robertson 1994:194 [ref. 22193] as proboscidens, Harrison in Fischer et al. 1995:1296 [ref. 22830], Thomson 1997:479 [ref. 23428], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:459 [ref. 24023], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:186 [ref. 24550], Thomson et al. 2000:288 [ref. 25640], Nelson et al. 2004:97 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:62 [ref. 37547], Miller 2006:181 [ref. 28615], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:190 [ref. 30957], Durand et al. 2012:691 [ref. 32366], Page et al. 2013:99 [ref. 32708], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:442 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:607 [ref. 34923], Durand 2016:29 [ref. 35589], Love et al. 2021:91 [ref. 39279], Angulo et al. 2023:66 [ref. 40676], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Chaenomugil proboscideus (Günther 1861). Mugilidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Panama, including southern Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.