Dajaus monticola (Bancroft 1834) (Fig. 9L). Mountain Mullet; Tepemechín, Mechín, Machín, Lisa, Lisa de Río, Lisa de Montaña, Sabalete Montañero

Vouchers: UCR 0052-001 (14), 0184-006 (19), 0457-010 (3), 0461-009 (5), 1065-006 (29) and 1066-005 (8); other collections: CUMV 64680 (1), MCZ 30724 (1), 30585 (1), UF 106607 (1), 106610 (1) and UMMZ 199648 (1). Distribution: Western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans; from North Carolina, USA, to Venezuela, including the West Indies, in the western Atlantic, and from the Gulf of California, Mexico, to northern Peru, including the Galapagos and Cocos islands, in the Eastern Pacific; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) Co, UI, WK, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF, LN (Atlantic), Ch, Ne, ER, PN and Ni (Pacific); 0–405 masl; Per, Dia, Cat. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend stable.

Literature: Villa (1982: 207, as Agonostomus monticola —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Carr & Giovannoli (1994: 106, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 384, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), González-Alemán (2006: 83, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including an illustration, and information on distribution and ecology), Gros & Miguel-Frithz (2010: 141, 249, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including illustrations, and information on distribution and ecology, plus indigenous science and ethnoichthyology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 785, as A. monticola —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), van den Berghe (2015: 37, as A. monticola —synonym; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 4696, as A. monticola —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 59; listed, including information on distribution).