ectenes, Coilia Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] 1905:517, Fig. 1 [Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 29 (no. 1433); ref. 10646] Shanghai, China. Holotype: USNM 52077. Paratypes: CAS-SU 9795 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:12 [ref. 12291]. •Possibly a synonym of Coilia nasus Temminck & Schlegel 1846 -- (Yuan & Qin 1985:325 [ref. 26325]). •Valid as Coilia ectenes Jordan & Seale 1905 -- (Okada 1961:298 [ref. 6363], Zhu 1995:7 [ref. 25213], Cheng & Zhou 1997:82 [ref. 26385], Wang et al. 2001:61 [ref. 26566], Zhang 2001:154 [ref. 26586], Zhang et al. 2016:47 [ref. 34477]). •Synonym of Coilia nasus Temminck & Schlegel 1846 -- (Whitehead et al. 1988:470 [ref. 5725], Youn & Kim 1996:35 [ref. 25727], Kim 1997:504 [ref. 24032] as ectens, Choi et al. 2003:495 [ref. 26218]). Current status: Synonym of Coilia nasus Temminck & Schlegel 1846. Engraulidae: Coiliinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.