Engraulis Cuvier [G.] 1816:174 Fem. Clupea encrasicolus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Fleming 1822:385 according to Whitehead 1967:124 [ref. 6464]. See Whitley 1935:136 [ref. 6396] for possible earlier publication. Genus name misspelled Langraulis by Gruvel & Bouyat 1906:156 [ref. 30367]. •Valid as Engraulis Cuvier 1816 -- (Svetovidov 1973:111 [ref. 7169], Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:282 [ref. 13675], Uyeno & Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:20 [ref. 6441], Grande 1985:245 [ref. 6466], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:205 [ref. 6284], Whitehead et al. 1988:311 [ref. 5725], Paxton et al. 1989:159 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:226 [ref. 22532], Wongratana et al. 1999:1700 [ref. 24719], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:133 [ref. 25968], Nizinski & Munroe 2003:766 [ref. 26995], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:29 [ref. 28183], Borsa et al. 2004:1114 [ref. 28607], Paxton et al. 2006:312 [ref. 28995], Gomon 2008:194 [ref. 30616], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:19 [ref. 36649], Parin et al. 2014:51 [ref. 33547], Loeb & Menezes 2015:299 [ref. 33727], Stewart & Struthers 2015:300 [ref. 34231], Pietsch & Orr 2015:19 [ref. 34694], Motomura et al. 2017:44 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:52 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:32 [ref. 36273], Bonhomme et al. 2022:597 [ref. 39183]). Current status: Valid as Engraulis Cuvier 1816. Engraulidae: Engraulinae.