cultriventris, Clupea Nordmann [A. von] 1840:522 [Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée; ref. 3209] Pont-Euxin [Black Sea]. Syntypes: MNHN 0000-3681 (3) Odessa, Black Sea. Type catalog: Bertin 1940:282-283 [ref. 293], Whitehead & Bauchot 1986:10-11 [ref. 9739]. •Synonym of Clupeonella delicatula (Nordmann 1840) [which is itself preoccupied] -- (Berg 1948:165 [ref. 12882]). •Valid as Clupeonella cultriventris (Nordmann 1840) -- (Svetovidov 1973:101 [ref. 7169], Whitehead in Whitehead et al. 1984:274 [ref. 13675], Whitehead 1985:52 [ref. 5141], Hoestlandt 1991:53 [ref. 24825], Heckman 1991:71 [ref. 24828], Coad 1995:8 [ref. 23608], Kottelat 1997:41 [ref. 22952], Reshetnikov et al. 1997:728 [ref. 24702], Dorofeeva 1998:29 [ref. 23573], Coad 1998:102 [ref. 23869], Bogutskaya et al. 2001:43 [ref. 26178], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:36 [ref. 26753], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:37 [ref. 28183], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:164 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:26 [ref. 29533], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:76 [ref. 29996], Vasil'eva 2007:49 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:164 [ref. 31251], Parin et al. 2014:58 [ref. 33547], Çiçek et al. 2015:143 [ref. 35151], Özuluğ & Saç 2019:25 [ref. 36599], Çiçek et al. 2020:243 [ref. 37644], Kuljanishvili et al. 2020:[4] [ref. 37535], Dyldin et al. 2022:[17] [ref. 39193], Niță et al. 2022:35 [ref. 40471], Pozdeev et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39511], Çiçek et al. 2023:331 [ref. 40625], Çiçek et al. 2024:36 [ref. 40789]). Current status: Valid as Clupeonella cultriventris (Nordmann 1840). Ehiravidae. Distribution: Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Sea of Marmara and adjacent watersheds. Habitat: brackish, marine.