“… Sardinella Valenciennes, 1847, an Indo-Pacific and Atlantic genus of marine, brackish and/or fresh water sardines ( Clupeidae ), comprises 22 valid species ( Whitehead 1985 , Stern et al 2016 ). Many species, including the endemic fresh water species Sardinella tawilis (Herre, 1927), occur in the Philippines ( Fowler 1941 , Rau and Rau 1980 , Whitehead 1985 , Conlu 1986 , Munroe et al 1999 , Willette et al 2011a , b , Willette and Santos 2012 , Stern et al 2016 , Hata 2017a , b ), some being an important fisheries resource (locally named “tambam”, “tuloy”, and “tunsoy”) ( Rau and Rau 1980 , Conlu 1986 ). A recently described species, Sardinella goni Stern, Rinkevich & Goren, 2016 was based on specimens collected from Boracay Island, the Philippines.…”