chinensis, Eperlanus Basilewsky [S.] 1855:242 [Nouveaux mémoires de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou v. 10; ref. 200] Straits of Tschili, China. No types at ZIN. •Valid as Protosalanx chinensis (Basilewsky 1855) -- (Roberts 1984:205 [ref. 5318], Zhang & Qiao 1994:101 [ref. 18971], Kim 1997:351 [ref. 24032], Kottelat 2001:56 [ref. 25482], Kim & Park 2002:272 [ref. 25913], Choi et al. 2003:191, 528 [ref. 26218], Fu et al. 2012:853 [ref. 31691], Kottelat 2013:269 [ref. 32989], Zhang et al. 2016:188 [ref. 34477], Dyldin et al. 2020:99 [ref. 37569]). Current status: Valid as Protosalanx chinensis (Basilewsky 1855). Salangidae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: China and Russia; also introduced in Russia, Habitat: freshwater.