longiceps, Sardinella Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:273 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Puducherry, India. Lectotype: MNHN 0000-3743. Paralectotypes: MNHN B-3089 [ex MNHN 0000-3743] (5). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:285 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:27-28 [ref. 9739]. Lectotype selected by Whitehead 1967:44 [ref. 6464]. •Synonym of Sardinella aurita Valenciennes 1847, but a valid subspecies -- (Stern et al. 2017:[9] 499 [ref. 36753]). •Valid as Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes 1847 -- (Dor 1984:42 [ref. 29757], Whitehead 1985:104 [ref. 5141], Goren & Dor 1994:10 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:65 [ref. 22896], Carpenter et al. 1997:112 [ref. 23922], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:236 [ref. 24754], Mishra et al. 1999:82 [ref. 25315], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:184 [ref. 25703], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:21 [ref. 27712], Bogorodsky et al. 2011:50 [ref. 31559], Psomadakis et al. 2015:154 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35490] as cf. longiceps, Ali et al. 2018:307 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:30 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:27 [ref. 37020], Zajonz et al. 2019:63 [ref. 36871], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 7 [ref. 38321], Anderson 2022:149 [ref. 39690], Zajonz et al. 2022:41 [ref. 40522]). Current status: Valid as Sardinella longiceps Valenciennes 1847. Dorosomatidae. Distribution: Red Sea; western Indian Ocean: East Africa, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf and Socotra (Yemen) east to southeastern India. Habitat: marine.