hawaiensis, Elops Regan [C. T.] 1909:39 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 3 (no. 13); ref. 14414] Hawaiian Islands. Syntypes: BMNH 1883.12.15.93-94 (2). •Synonym of Elops saurus Linnaeus 1766 -- (Okada 1961:290 [ref. 6363]). •Valid as Elops hawaiensis Regan 1909 -- (Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:21 [ref. 6441], Allen & Swainston 1988:30 [ref. 25477] as hawaiiensis, Paxton et al. 1989:104 [ref. 12442], Allen 1991:37 [ref. 21090], Gomon et al. 1994:194 [ref. 22532], Allen 1997:50 [ref. 23977], Larson & Williams 1997:346 [ref. 23967], Smith 1999:1619 [ref. 24661], Johnson 1999:720 [ref. 25471], Nakabo 2000:188 [ref. 25086], Randall & Lim in Randall & Lim 2000:584 [ref. 25122], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:97 [ref. 26368], Sakai et al. 2001:84 [ref. 25693], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:188 [ref. 26001], Randall et al. 2004:5 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:24 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:108 [ref. 28379], Paxton et al. 2006:221 [ref. 28994], Randall 2007:51 [ref. 30952], Bray 2008:155 [ref. 30620], Motomura et al. 2010:69 [ref. 31256], Fricke et al. 2011:348 [ref. 31242], Larson et al. 2013:23 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:33 [ref. 32989], Yoshida et al. 2013:17 [ref. 34464], Morgan et al. 2014:33 [ref. 36567], Motomura et al. 2017:27 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:16 [ref. 36460] as hawaiiensis, Kim et al. 2020:51 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:16 [ref. 37637], Taki et al. 2021:52 [ref. 39830], Sousa et al. 2022:2 [ref. 40398], Jamandre 2023:166 [ref. 40455]). Current status: Valid as Elops hawaiensis Regan 1909. Elopidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Andaman Sea east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Korea and Japan, south to northwestern Australia, New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.