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In this paper, the extended $\eta$-F composite fading distribution is proposed. This new distribution is simple, characterized in terms of physical parameters, able to model environments where the multipath fading coexists with shadowing and takes into account the clustering imbalance between the in-phase and quadrature components. For the aforementioned distribution, new expressions are derived for the probability density function (PDF); cumulative distribution function, higher-order moments and moment generating function of the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio; joint envelope-phase PDF and amount of fading. Subsequently, expressions are deduced for the outage probability, average symbol error probability and average channel capacity. An asymptotic analysis is also provided. Several curves are presented and the theoretical results are corroborated by Monte-Carlo simulations. Furthermore, an empirical validation is demonstrated in an underwater acoustic scenario, in which a better fit between the theoretical PDF and the empirical data is perceived for the extended $\eta$-F model, when compared to the extended $\eta$-μ and k-μ shadowed distributions.