Spratelloides Bleeker [P.] 1851:214 Masc. Clupea argyrotaeniata Bleeker 1852 (Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel 1846)). Type by monotypy. Appeared first as "Spratelloïdes argyrotaenia Blkr. = Clupea argyrotaenia Blkr. Makassar." •Valid as Spratelloides Bleeker 1851 -- (Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:279 [ref. 13675], Uyeno & Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:19 [ref. 6441], Grande 1985:248 [ref. 6466], Whitehead 1985:33 [ref. 5141], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:204 [ref. 6284], Paxton et al. 1989:157 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:224 [ref. 22532], Monroe et al. 1999:1777 [ref. 24728], Paxton et al. 2006:334 [ref. 28995], Gomon 2008:192 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:22 [ref. 30213], Kimura in Kimura & Yoshino 2009:31 [ref. 30440], Lavoué et al. 2017:43 [ref. 35380], Motomura et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:57 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:30 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:57 [ref. 36673], Bloom & Egan 2018:5 [ref. 36216] in Spratelloididae). Current status: Valid as Spratelloides Bleeker 1851. Spratelloididae.