The slender white sardine (''Escualosa elongata'') is a species of

sardine "Sardine" and "pilchard" are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae. The term "sardine" was first used in English during the early 15th century, a folk etymology says it comes from the Ital ...

(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 production of ...

) in the genus ''

Escualosa ''Escualosa'' is a genus of fishes in the herring family, Clupeidae. The genus currently contains two described species. Species * ''Escualosa elongata'' Thosaporn Wongratana, Wongratana, 1983 (Slender white sardine) * ''Escualosa thoracata'' ...

''.''Escualosa elongata''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Thosaporn Wongratana in 1983.Wongratana, T., 1983 (10 Mar.) [ref. 8265
''Diagnoses of 24 new species and proposal of a new name for a species of Indo-Pacific clupeoid fishes.''
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology v. 29 (no. 4): 385-407. It is a tropical fish which was discovered at a Sunday market in Bangkok, Thailand, though the two specimens (holotype: BMNH 1973.1.18.1; paratype: CUB (uncat. 1)''Escualosa elongata''
at www.fishwise.co.za.) were caught off the eastern coast of the

Gulf of Thailand The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula. It is around in l ...

. The sardines are known to swim at a maximum depth of 50 metres. The largest known

standard length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...

for the species is 6.7 centimetres (2.64 inches). It is distinguished from its sister species, ''

Escualosa thoracata The white sardine (''Escualosa thoracata'') is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae. It was described by Achille Valenciennes in 1847. It is a tropical fish of the Indo-Pacific distributed from Thailand to Indonesia and Australia.Froese, R. ...

'' (the white sardine) by having a slenderer body, earning it its common name, and also by a silver band on its flank.

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