alosa, Clupea Linnaeus [C.] 1758:318 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] European Ocean. Syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.179 [Gronovius coll.] (1, skin). Type catalog: Wheeler 1958:207 [ref. 13434]. •Valid as Alosa alosa (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Berg 1948:145 [ref. 12882], Svetovidov 1973:105 [ref. 7169], Poll et al. 1984:41 [ref. 6172], Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:269 [ref. 13675], Whitehead 1985:194 [ref. 5141], Wheeler 1985:24-25 [ref. 20705], Lelek 1987:58 [ref. 22962], Whitehead 1990:208 [ref. 14039], Quignard & Douchement 1991:89 [ref. 24829], Kottelat 1997:37 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:726 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva 1998:24 [ref. 23573], Swinney et al. 2000:35 [ref. 25136], Azeroual et al. 2000:20 [ref. 25366], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:43 [ref. 26178], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:174 [ref. 26753], Hanel 2003:48 [ref. 27894], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:32 [ref. 28183], Hanel & Lusk 2005:186 [ref. 28804], Faria et al. 2006:301 [ref. 39548], Fricke 2007:25 [ref. 30577], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:67 [ref. 29996], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:19 [ref. 36649], Munroe 2016:1729 [ref. 34560], Martins & Carneiro 2018:27 [ref. 36550], Kukuev & Orlov 2018:33 [ref. 36609], Carneiro et al. 2019:71 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:92 [ref. 36864], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:251 [ref. 37108] with question, Dyldin et al. 2020:79 [ref. 37569], Kovačić et al. 2020:47 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:51 [ref. 38883], Kovačić et al. 2021:21 [ref. 39014], Dyldin et al. 2022:[13] [ref. 39193]). Current status: Valid as Alosa alosa (Linnaeus 1758). Alosidae. Distribution: Northeastern Atlantic; Baltic Sea; North Sea; also adjacent freshwater rivers of Europe. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.