surinamensis, Stolephorus Bleeker [P.] 1865:178 [Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde v. 3; ref. 16823] Suriname. Holotype (unique): RMNH 7072. •Valid as Anchovia surinamensis (Bleeker 1865) -- (Whitehead et al. 1988:380 [ref. 5725], Cervigón 1991:116 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:313 [ref. 23827], Planquette et al. 1996:66 [ref. 22818], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Kullander & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:39 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:39 [ref. 27192], Nizinski & Munroe 2003:783 [ref. 26995], Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321], Melo et al. 2016:132 [ref. 34701] as aff. surinamensis, Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], Silvano et al. 2020:391 [ref. 38134], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:142 [ref. 38945], Koerber et al. 2022:12 [ref. 39235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:69 [ref. 40480], Vieira et al. 2023:19 [ref. 40759]). Current status: Valid as Anchovia surinamensis (Bleeker 1865). Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: South America: Trinidad to Amazon River, northeastern South America (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.