nasus, Clupea Bloch [M. E.] 1795:116, Pl. 429 (fig. 1) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 9; ref. 464] Malabar, India. Holotype (unique): ZMB 3898. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:65 [ref. 24282] with locality as Indian Ocean. On p. 117 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 12 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Nematalosa nasus (Bloch 1795) -- (Whitehead 1985:248 [ref. 5141], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:202 [ref. 6284] in Nematalosus, Al-Hassan 1987:422 [ref. 22503], Ataur Rahman 1989:255 [ref. 24860], Barman 1991:464 [ref. 30273], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:111 [ref. 20764], Coad 1991:25 [ref. 15702], Nelson & McCarthy 1995:379 [ref. 21593], Randall 1995:67 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:106 [ref. 27969], Rainboth 1996:62 [ref. 22772], Carpenter et al. 1997:113 [ref. 23922], Munroe et al. 1999:1807 [ref. 24728], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:236 [ref. 24754], Mishra et al. 1999:82 [ref. 25315], Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:184 [ref. 25703] as nausus, Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Kottelat 2001:13 [ref. 25482], Zhang 2001:103 [ref. 26586], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:20 [ref. 27712], Ataur Rahman 2003:279 [ref. 31338], Coad 2010:79 [ref. 36620], Kottelat 2013:62 [ref. 32989], Psomadakis et al. 2015:153 [ref. 34104], Ali et al. 2018:306 [ref. 36183], Hata in Kimura et al. 2018:36 [ref. 36460], Jawad et al. 2018:99 [ref. 36262], Suresh et al. 2018:72 [ref. 36495], Eagderi et al. 2019:26 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 7 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:291 [ref. 37272], Anderson 2022:153 [ref. 39690], Endruweit 2024:37 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Nematalosa nasus (Bloch 1795). Dorosomatidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa); Gulf of Aden and Persian Gulf east to Philippines, north to southern Korea and southern Japan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.