Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837)

Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, Zootaxa 5376 (1), pp. 1-89 : 35

Awaous banana (Valenciennes 1837) . Atlantic River Goby; Chupapiedras, Guavina, Lamearenas, Gobio, Gobio de Río del Atlántico, Dormilón

Vouchers: UCR 0457-013 (1), 0458-008 (8), 0460-004 (3), 0461-008 (12), 0462-005 (4), 1066-002 (13) and 3225- 004 (1); LSUMZ 15393 (2) and 17156 (2); other collections: UF 106971 (1). Distribution: North, Central and South America; from northern Florida, USA, southward through the Greater and Lesser Antilles to Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, Atlantic drainages; ( Nicaragua) Co, UI, WK, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 0–681 masl; Per, Dia, Cat. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend stable. Literature: Villa (1982: 226, as Awaous tajasica (Lichtenstein 1822) —misidentification; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 396; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), González-Alemán (2006: 73; brief description, including an illustration, and information on distribution and ecology), Gros & Miguel-Frithz (2010: 181; brief description, including illustrations, and information on distribution and ecology, plus indigenous science and ethnoichthyology), van den Berghe (2015: 37; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 4479; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Angulo (2021: 36; listed, including information on distribution) and McMahan et al. (2021: 970; phylogenetic relationships, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).