brevirostris, Engraulis Günther [A.] 1868:392 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 7; ref. 1990] Caxoeira, Río Paraguaçú, Bahia, Brazil. Syntypes: (2?) BMNH 1840.2.16.27. •Valid as Anchoviella brevirostris (Günther 1868) -- (Cervigón 1987:22 [ref. 11411], Whitehead et al. 1988:328 [ref. 5725], Cervigón 1991:119 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:313 [ref. 23827], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Kullander & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:39 [ref. 27192], Nizinski & Munroe 2003:784 [ref. 26995], Loeb 2012:17 [ref. 31849], Loeb & Figueiredo 2014:35 [ref. 35456], Loeb 2015:37 [ref. 36196], Barbosa et al. 2017:167 [ref. 35722], Loeb et al. 2018:[2] [ref. 35873], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:140 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:68 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Anchoviella brevirostris (Günther 1868). Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname south to Brazil. Habitat: brackish, marine.