Atherina Linnaeus [C.] 1758:315 Fem. Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. Spelled Atherine by Berkenhout 1789:82 [ref. 12437]. On Official List (Opinion 75). •Valid as Atherina Linnaeus 1758 -- (Cadenat & Delais 1962:i [35068], Kiener & Spillmann 1973:576 [ref. 7217], White et al. 1984:360 [ref. 13655], Ivantsoff 1986:382 [ref. 6292], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:1207 [ref. 13677], Maugé 1986:277 [ref. 6218], Dyer 1993:91 [ref. 40716], Vasil'eva 1996:200 [ref. 32017], Sokolov 1998:108 [ref. 23571], Miller 2003:45 [ref. 27342], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:175 [ref. 28183], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:470 [ref. 29996], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:33 [ref. 36649], Pujolar et al. 2012:857 [ref. 32446], Parin et al. 2014:192 [ref. 33547], Campanella et al. 2015:16 [ref. 33711], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:892 [ref. 34062], Esmaeili et al. 2017:89 [ref. 35254], Vasil'eva 2017:791 [ref. 35714], Esmaeili et al. 2018:71 [ref. 36089], Moreno-Borges et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 37107]). Current status: Valid as Atherina Linnaeus 1758. Atherinidae: Atherininae.