marinus, Silurus Mitchill [S. L.] 1815:433 [Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814); ref. 13292] New York, U.S.A. Neotype: ANSP 23340. Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:37 [ref. 29155]. Neotype selected by Marceniuk et al. 2022:15 [ref. 39036]. •Valid as Bagre marinus (Mitchill 1815) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:83 [ref. 23100], Burgess 1989:167 [ref. 12860], Cervigón 1991:142 [ref. 24472], Boschung 1992:67 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:260 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:582 [ref. 16204] dated 1814, Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:82 [ref. 22947], Murdy et al. 1997:96 [ref. 23144], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:362 [ref. 23897], Aguilera 1998:47 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:143 [ref. 24550], Le Bail et al. 2000:30 [ref. 24549], Camargo & Isaac 2001:145 [ref. 27639], Acero P. & Betancur-R. 2002:10 [ref. 26521], Acero P. 2003:848 [ref. 26998], Marceniuk & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:448 [ref. 27061], Marceniuk & Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:42 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:11 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:83 [ref. 27807], Kailola 2004:129 [ref. 28108], Acero P. et al. 2005:129 [ref. 28551], Marceniuk 2005:96 [ref. 28718], Miller 2006:169 [ref. 28615], Marceniuk & Menezes 2007:26 [ref. 29031], Ferraris 2007:37 [ref. 29155], Betancur-R. et al. 2007:349 [ref. 29268], Betancur-R. & Willink 2007:826 [ref. 29439], Page et al. 2013:82 [ref. 32708], Catelani et al. 2014:931 [ref. 37496], Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:344 [ref. 36407], Robins et al. 2018:153 [ref. 35886], Spier et al. 2018:7 [ref. 36103], Marceniuk et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39036], Carvalho-Filho 2023:71 [ref. 40480], Marceniuk et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40422], Page et al. 2023:78 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bagre marinus (Mitchill 1815). Ariidae: Bagreinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts south to Florida (U.S.A.), including Gulf of Mexico. Habitat: brackish, marine.