batesii, Engraulis Günther [A.] 1868:399 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 7; ref. 1990] Pará River, Brazil. Syntypes: BMNH 1849.11.8.73-75 (3). •Valid as Lycengraulis batesii (Günther 1868) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:6 [ref. 9708], Whitehead et al. 1988:389 [ref. 5725], Cervigón 1991:123 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:316 [ref. 23827], Planquette et al. 1996:70 [ref. 22818], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Kullander & Ferraris in Reis et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27061], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:40 [ref. 27192], Nizinski & Munroe 2003:790 [ref. 26995], Loeb & Alcântara 2013:200 [ref. 32809], Barriga Salazar 2014:104 [ref. 35745], Ramos et al. 2014:3 [ref. 35321], Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], Marceniuk et al. 2017:38 [ref. 35324], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:34 [ref. 35633], Silvano et al. 2020:393 [ref. 38134], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:149 [ref. 38945], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:14 [ref. 39298], Koerber et al. 2022:13 [ref. 39235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:70 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Lycengraulis batesii (Günther 1868). Engraulidae: Engraulinae. Distribution: South America: Amazon, Orinoco and Parnaiba river basins, and Guianas (Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela). Habitat: freshwater, brackish.