- No common name;①②③
Post & Quéro (1991) reviewed the speciesHowella brodiei Ogilby, 1899, and demonstrated the existence of two subspecies:H. brodiei atlantica (Post & Quéro, 1991) from the North and tropical Atlantic andH. brodiei brodiei Ogilby, 1899 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The authors also showed that the number of scales between the origin of the second dorsal fin and the lateral line separates the Atlantic populations ofHowella into two different species:Howella brodiei atlantica andHowella sherborni (Norman, 1930). Eschmeyer (2013) raised the subspeciesHowella brodiei atlantica (Post & Quéro, 1991) to species level:Howella atlantica (Post & Quéro, 1991). The records ofH. brodiei in the northeast Atlantic should probably be considered as belonging toH. atlantica.