flavipinnis, Pristigaster Valenciennes [A.] 1837:Pl. 10 (fig. 2) [Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale; ref. 20720] Buenos Aires, Argentina. No types known. Type catalog: Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:45-46 [ref. 9739]. Name available from plate, description in Valenciennes 1847:8 [ref. 5010] as Pellone orbignyanum. In Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:302 [ref. 1012] as Pellona orbignyana. Pl. 10 dates to 1837. •Valid as Ilisha flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Gómez & Chebez 1996:46 [ref. 23791], Munroe 2003:798 [ref. 26996], Menni 2004:71 [ref. 28131]). •Valid as Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837) -- (Whitehead 1985:282 [ref. 5141], Cervigón 1991:91 [ref. 24472], Le Guennec 1992:150 [ref. 22388], Cervigón 1992:390 [ref. 23827], Planquette et al. 1996:80 [ref. 22818], Sverlij et al. 1998:8 [ref. 27632] dated 1849, Britski et al. 1999:22 [ref. 24147], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639] dated 1847, de Pinna & Di Dario in Reis et al. 2003:44 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:8 [ref. 27366], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Litz & Koerber 2014:6 [ref. 33622], Sarmiento et al. 2014:96, 187 [ref. 35004], Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321], Mirande & Koerber 2015:10 [ref. 35117], Vera-Alcaraz & Vuletich 2016:3 [ref. 35084], Nión et al. 2016:25 [ref. 35565], Koerber et al. 2017:11 [ref. 35267], Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:388 [ref. 38134], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:66 [ref. 40480], Loureiro et al. 2023:28 [ref. 40506]). Current status: Valid as Pellona flavipinnis (Valenciennes 1837). Pristigasteridae. Distribution: Widespread in South America: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Uruguay. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.