harengus, Clupea Linnaeus [C.] 1758:317 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] European seas. Syntypes: ?BMNH 1853.11.12.111 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:207 [ref. 13434]. Misspelled arengus by Cabrera y Corro, Pérez & Hänseler 1817:9 [ref. 17319], see Graells 1887:183 [ref. 30438]. •Valid as Clupea harengus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Herrera 1896:26 [ref. 39336], Berg 1948:148 [ref. 12882], Svetovidov 1973:99 [ref. 7169], Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:273 [ref. 13675], Whitehead 1985:115 [ref. 5141], Smith 1986:395 [ref. 22186], Grant 1986:714 [ref. 22454], Robins & Ray 1986:69 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:114 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:51 [ref. 14674], Murdy et al. 1997:73 [ref. 23144], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:727 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva 1998:28 [ref. 23573], Munroe in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:141 [ref. 26158], Munroe & Nizinski 2003:828 [ref. 26997], Nelson et al. 2004:67 [ref. 27807], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:36 [ref. 28183], Fricke 2007:25 [ref. 30577], Møller et al. 2010:22 [ref. 31169], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:117 [ref. 31212], Page et al. 2013:67 [ref. 32708], Parin et al. 2014:56 [ref. 33547], Afonso et al. 2016:14, 126 [ref. 36199], Mecklenburg et al. 2018:59 [ref. 36370], Bañón et al. 2019:292 [ref. 37095], Carneiro et al. 2019:72 [ref. 37250], Bañón et al. 2020:[2] [ref. 37355], Bañón & Maño 2021:51 [ref. 38883], Canales-Aguirre et al. 2021:3 [ref. 38579], Dyldin et al. 2022:[16] [ref. 39193], Fermon et al. 2022:128 [ref. 39448] with question, Simian et al. 2022:374 [ref. 40776], Page et al. 2023:60 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Clupea harengus Linnaeus 1758. Clupeidae. Distribution: North Sea; Baltic Sea; northeastern Atlantic and adjacent Arctic areas, south of Spitsbergen (Norway) and off Kola (Russia) south to Portugal. Habitat: brackish, marine.