macrolepidotus, Engraulis Kner [R.] 1863:224, "Fig. 7" (unpublished) [Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 1863, v. 2; ref. 5002] Río Bayano, (Pacific) Panama. Holotype (unique): ZSM [old collection] destroyed in WWII. Type information and lectotype designation: Whitehead 1970:36 [ref. 11605] but contested by Neumann 2006:274 [ref. 28925]. Also appeared as new in Kner & Steindachner 1864:21, Pl. 3 (fig. 2) [ref. 2649]. Not treated in Kullander & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:39 [ref. 27061]. Whitehead's lectotype (NMW 2808) was collected after the original description. •Valid as Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner 1863) -- (Villa 1982:95 [ref. 36708], Whitehead et al. 1988:379 [ref. 5725], Allen & Robertson 1994:62 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:52 [ref. 23101], Whitehead & Rodriguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995:1080 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:132 [ref. 24545], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:183 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:124 [ref. 24550], Nelson et al. 2004:66 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:25 [ref. 37547], Miller 2006:89 [ref. 28615], Angulo et al. 2013:990 [ref. 33194], McMahan et al. 2013:443 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:66 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:104 [ref. 35745], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:88 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:290 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:42 [ref. 39279], Angulo et al. 2023:18 [ref. 40676], Page et al. 2023:60 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:112 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner 1863). Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to northern Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico). Habitat: brackish, marine.