mystus, Clupea Linnaeus [C.] 1758:319 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Indian Ocean (erroneous, should be China). Syntypes: NRM 74 (1), ZMUU Linn. coll. 108 (1). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:32 [ref. 23530], Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:210 [ref. 20707], Wheeler 1991:159, Fig. 4 [ref. 20102]. Sometimes spelled mistus. Also appeared in Linnaeus 1759:252 [ref. 24770]. •Valid as Coilia mystus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Okada 1961:292 [ref. 6363], Whitehead et al. 1988:469 [ref. 5725], Zheng et al. 1989:26 [ref. 21202], Kuang in Pan et al. 1991:44 [ref. 23876], Youn & Kim 1996:36 [ref. 25727], Chen et al. 1997:15 [ref. 26476], Cheng & Zhou 1997:83 [ref. 26385], Kim 1997:150 [ref. 24032], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:588 [ref. 25122], Kottelat 2001:14 [ref. 25482], Wang et al. 2001:60 [ref. 26566], Zhang 2001:151 [ref. 26586], Kottelat 2013:53 [ref. 32989], Hata in Kimura et al. 2018:39 [ref. 36460], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 6 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:57 [ref. 39118], Endruweit 2024:37 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Coilia mystus (Linnaeus 1758). Engraulidae: Coiliinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Vietnam and China to Korea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.