atherinoides, Clupea Linnaeus [C.] 1766:523 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] Suriname. No types known. •Valid as Pterengraulis atherinoides (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Whitehead et al. 1988:387 [ref. 5725], Cervigón 1991:128 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:316 [ref. 23827], Planquette et al. 1996:68 [ref. 22818], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Kullander & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:41 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Nizinski & Munroe 2003:792 [ref. 26995], Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321] with authorship as Schultz 1949, Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:34 [ref. 35633], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:151 [ref. 38945], Koerber et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:35 [ref. 41297], Carvalho-Filho 2023:69 [ref. 40480], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:6 [ref. 41573]). Current status: Valid as Pterengraulis atherinoides (Linnaeus 1766). Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: South America: Trinidad Island (Trinidad and Tobago) south to northeastern Brazil (Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.