fimbriata, Spratella Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:359, Pl. 601 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Malabar coast, India. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3227. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-3084 [ex MNHN 0000-3227] (4). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:287 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:29 [ref. 9739]. Lectotype selected by Whitehead 1967:50 [ref. 6464]. On Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (Opinion 901). •Valid as Sardinella fimbriata (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Dor 1984:41 [ref. 29757], Whitehead 1985:98 [ref. 5141], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:213 [ref. 24016], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:108 [ref. 27969], Munroe et al. 1999:1812 [ref. 24728], Mishra et al. 1999:82 [ref. 25315], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Zhang 2001:86 [ref. 26586], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:20 [ref. 27712], Adrim et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27715], Kottelat 2013:63 [ref. 32989], Stern et al. 2016:9 [ref. 34733], Ali et al. 2018:307 [ref. 36183], Hata & Motomura 2019:81 [ref. 36574], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 7 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:292 [ref. 37272], Anderson 2022:148 [ref. 39690]). Current status: Valid as Sardinella fimbriata (Valenciennes 1847). Dorosomatidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: southwestern India east to Philipines and Papua New Guinea. Habitat: brackish, marine.