leiogaster, Sardinella Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1847:270 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 20; ref. 1012] Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN 0000-3742. Bleeker specimens: NMV A938 (1). Type catalog: Bertin 1940:288 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:27 [ref. 9739]. •Valid as Sardinella leiogaster Valenciennes 1847 -- (Dor 1984:42 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Amblygaster leiogaster (Valenciennes 1847) -- (Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984:19 [ref. 6441], Whitehead 1985:86 [ref. 5141], Allen & Swainston 1988:30 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:152 [ref. 12442], Goren & Dor 1994:9 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:98 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:50 [ref. 23977], Anderson et al. 1998:21 [ref. 23611], Munroe et al. 1999:1786 [ref. 24728], Nakabo 2000:246 [ref. 25086], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:18 [ref. 25847], Zhang 2001:72 [ref. 26586], Nakabo 2002:246 [ref. 26001], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:16 [ref. 27510], Paxton et al. 2006:324 [ref. 28995], Kimura in Kimura & Yoshino 2009:28 [ref. 30440], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:60 [ref. 35264], Mary et al. 2017:468 [ref. 35219], Motomura et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:54 [ref. 35805], Suresh et al. 2018:63 [ref. 36495], Psomadakis et al. 2020:288 [ref. 37272], Anderson 2022:143 [ref. 39690], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:51 [ref. 41223] as Ambkygaster leiogaster). Current status: Valid as Amblygaster leiogaster (Valenciennes 1847). Dorosomatidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes (Mauritius) east to Indonesia, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.