delicatula, Clupea Bennett [E. T.] 1832:168 [Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1830-31 (pt 1); ref. 4944] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. •Valid as Spratelloides delicatula (Bennett 1832) -- (Dor 1984:40 [ref. 29757]). •Valid as Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett 1832) -- (Uyeno & Sato in Masuda et al. 1984:19 [ref. 6441], Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:279 [ref. 13675], Whitehead 1985:33 [ref. 5141], Whitehead & Wongratana 1986:204 [ref. 6284], Paxton et al. 1989:157 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:12 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:47 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:158 [ref. 25479], Randall et al. 1994:225 [ref. 21645], Goren & Dor 1994:10 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:68 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:113 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:115 [ref. 23922], Randall et al. 1997:47 [ref. 25919], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Myers 1999:60 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:77 [ref. 24106], Munroe et al. 1999:1816 [ref. 24728], Johnson 1999:722 [ref. 25471], Munroe & Nizinski in Randall & Lim 2000:587 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:243 [ref. 25086], Hutchins 2001:18 [ref. 25847], Zhang 2001:59 [ref. 26586] dated 1831, Nakabo 2002:243 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:24 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S96 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:613 [ref. 27495], Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:17 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:7 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27715], Golani 2005:19 [ref. 37112], Mundy 2005:149 [ref. 28379], Randall 2005:56 [ref. 28239], Paxton et al. 2006:334 [ref. 28995], Randall 2007:102 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:22 [ref. 30213], Kimura in Kimura & Yoshino 2009:31 [ref. 30440], Fricke et al. 2011:355 [ref. 31242], Allen & Erdmann 2012:120 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:37 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:25 [ref. 33932], Ishimori et al. 2015:527 [ref. 34015], Psomadakis et al. 2015:155 [ref. 34104], Koeda et al. 2016:10 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35490], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[20] 258 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:57 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:30 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:28 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:57 [ref. 36673], Psomadakis et al. 2020:293 [ref. 37272], Golani 2021:20 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:22 [ref. 39014], Anderson 2022:157 [ref. 39690]). Current status: Valid as Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett 1832). Spratelloididae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Tasmania (Australia), and New Caledonia; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: brackish, marine.