Author: (Bennett, 1831)

Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett, 1831)

Diagnosis: small silvery fishes, elongate, cylindrical; belly rounded, without keel of scutes. Mouth terminal, jaws equal; branchiostegal rays 7. Dorsal fin origin before midpoint of body. Colour: back blue/green, flanks silvery. Size: to 7 cm, usually 4-6 cm.

Habitat: coastal pelagic, in upper part of water column; shoaling. Food: smaller elements of zooplankton. Reproduction: not known, presumably in surface waters.

Distribution: rare immigrant to eastern Mediterranean from Red Sea via Suez Canal (single recorded specimen from coast of Israel). Elsewhere, whole Indo-Pacific region, from Red Sea to Japan.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Clupeiformes
Family Clupeidae
Genus Spratelloides
Species Spratelloides delicatulus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett, 1832)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett, 1831)

Synonyms:

Spratelloides delicatulus Bennett, 1831
Clupea delicatula Bennett, 1831, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1: 168 (Mauritius).
Spratelloides delicatulus: Whitehead, 1973: 172-173, fig. 6 Ben Tuvia, 1978: 18


Common names:

delicate round herring [En]

Bennett, E. T. 1831b. Observations on a collection of fishes &om the Mauritius, with characters of new Genera & Species. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond, 1:166.

Whitehead, P. J. P. 1973. A synopsis of the Clupeoid fishes of India. J. Mar. BioL Assoc. India, 14 (1): pp. 160-256.

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