mordax, Engraulis Girard [C. F.] 1854:138 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 7; ref. 1817] San Francisco, California, U.S.A. No types known. •Valid as Engraulis mordax Girard 1854 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:74 [ref. 9277], Nelson 1984:424 [ref. 5190], Whitehead et al. 1988:320 [ref. 5725], Hammann & Cisneros-Mata 1989:49 [ref. 23109], Matarese et al. 1989:48 [ref. 26885], Swift et al. 1993:130 [ref. 22379], Whitehead & Rodriguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995:1082 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:135 [ref. 24545], Fuller et al. 1999:41 [ref. 25838], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:138 [ref. 25968], Nelson et al. 2004:66 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:25 [ref. 37547], Page et al. 2013:67 [ref. 32708], Pietsch & Orr 2015:19 [ref. 34694], Kells et al. 2016:90 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:36 [ref. 37205], Love et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39279], Page et al. 2023:60 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:145 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Engraulis mordax Girard 1854. Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: eastern Gulf of Alaska (U.S.A.) south to Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico), including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: marine.