''Clupeonella'' is a genus of

fish Fish are Aquatic animal, aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack Limb (anatomy), limbs with Digit (anatomy), digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous and bony fish as we ...

in the family

Clupeidae Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa, and menhadens. The clupeoids include many of the most important food fishes in the world, and are also commonly caught for producti ...

. They are widespread in the fresh and

brackish water Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...

s of the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central A ...

and

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drainages.

Species

* ''

Clupeonella abrau Abrau sprat, ''Clupeonella abrau'', is a species of freshwater fish in the family Clupeidae. It is found landlocked in Russia in a single locality, Lake Abrau, located at 70 m above sea level near the Black Sea coast close to Novorossiysk. Th ...

'' (Maliatsky, 1930) (Abrau sprat) * ''

Clupeonella caspia Caspian tyulka, ''Clupeonella caspia'', is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae. It is found in the Caspian Sea, also in the lower reaches of the rivers Volga, Ural, and possibly Terek. This is a brackishwater pelagic- neritic fish, up ...

'' Svetovidov, 1941 (Caspian tyulka) * '' Clupeonella cultriventris'' ( Nordmann, 1840) (Black Sea sprat) * '' Clupeonella engrauliformis'' (

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, 1904) (Anchovy sprat) * '' Clupeonella grimmi''

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, 1877 (Southern Caspian sprat) * '' Clupeonella muhlisi''

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, 1934 * '' Clupeonella tscharchalensis'' (

, 1896) (Freshwater tyulka)

Sources

* Clupeidae Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Karl Kessler Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Clupeiformes-stub