Coilia (subgenus of Engraulis) Gray [J. E.] 1830:Pl. 85 (v. 1) Fem. Engraulis (Coilia) hamiltonii Gray 1830 (= Mystus ramcarati Hamilton 1822). Type by monotypy. Also appeared in Gray 1831:9 [ref. 1879] as a new genus. •Valid as Coilia Gray 1830 -- (see Whitehead 1967:148-149 [ref. 6464], Uyeno in Masuda et al. 1984:20 [ref. 6441], Grande 1985:245 [ref. 6466], Whitehead et al. 1988:460 [ref. 5725], Kottelat 1989:4 [ref. 13605], Ataur Rahman 1989:240 [ref. 24860], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:42 [ref. 23876], Liu 1995:558 [ref. 22581], Wongratana et al. 1999:1699 [ref. 24719], Ataur Rahman 2003:264 [ref. 31338], Kottelat 2013:52 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:47 [ref. 34477]). Current status: Valid as Coilia Gray 1830. Engraulidae: Coiliinae.