japonicus, Engraulis Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1846:239, Pl. 108 (fig. 3) [Fauna Japonica Parts 10-14; ref. 4374] Japan. No types known. Based on figure and manuscript of Burger (Boeseman 1947:176 [ref. 12876]). •Valid as Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel 1846 -- (Uyeno & Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:20 [ref. 6441], Nelson 1984:424 [ref. 5190], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:205 [ref. 6284], Whitehead et al. 1988:318 [ref. 5725], Youn & Kim 1996:37 [ref. 25727], Cheng & Zhou 1997:75 [ref. 26385], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:8 [ref. 24670] with author as Houttuyn, Fricke 1999:77 [ref. 24106], Wongratana et al. 1999:1719 [ref. 24719], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:588 [ref. 25122], Sheiko & Fedorov 2000:17 [ref. 25650], Shimizu 2001:21 [ref. 25799], Wang et al. 2001:55 [ref. 26566], Zhang 2001:120 [ref. 26586], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:139 [ref. 25968], Choi et al. 2003:149, 495 [ref. 26218], Fedorov et al. 2003:24 [ref. 27579], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:31 [ref. 28183], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:110 [ref. 28072], Love et al. 2005:25 [ref. 37547], Parin et al. 2014:52 [ref. 33547], Koeda et al. 2016:10 [ref. 35333], Kwun et al. 2017:141 [ref. 37287], Motomura et al. 2017:44 [ref. 35490] as japonica, Kim et al. 2020:59 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:21 [ref. 37637] as japonica, Dyldin et al. 2021:18 [ref. 38804], Dyldin & Orlov 2021:62 [ref. 38158], Love et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39279], Dyldin et al. 2022:[18] [ref. 39193], Page et al. 2023:60 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel 1846. Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: Indonesia north to Korea, Japan and Kamchatka (Russia), straying to western Aleutian Islands (U.S.A.). Western Indian Ocean populations may belong to a separate species. Habitat: marine.