Alosa Linck [H. F.] 1790:35 Fem. Clupea alosa Linnaeus 1758. Type apparently by subsequent absolute tautonymy. No species initially mentioned, species added by Cuvier 1829:319 (see Whitehead 1967:77 [ref. 6464]). •Valid as Alosa Linck 1790 -- (Svetovidov 1973:105 [ref. 7169], Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:269 [ref. 13675], Poll et al. 1984:41 [ref. 6172], Grande 1985:249 [ref. 6466], Hoestlandt 1991:86 [ref. 24815], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:217 [ref. 21581], Dorofeeva 1998:24 [ref. 23573], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:133 [ref. 25968], Munroe & Nizinski 2003:806 [ref. 26997], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:32 [ref. 28183], Faria et al. 2006:300 [ref. 39548], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:63 [ref. 29996], Minckley & Marsh 2009:77 [ref. 31114], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:19 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:117 [ref. 31212], Schmidt & Morse 2011:229 [ref. 31775], Parin et al. 2014:53 [ref. 33547], Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. 2015:859 [ref. 34062], Pietsch & Orr 2015:19 [ref. 34694], Esmaeili et al. 2017:27 [ref. 35254], Esmaeili et al. 2018:8 [ref. 36089], Kukuev & Orlov 2018:28 [ref. 36609]). Current status: Valid as Alosa Linck 1790. Alosidae.