''Spratelloides'' is a
genus
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of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
in the
family
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Spratelloididae. They are small fish used as
fishing bait
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, especially in
skipjack tuna
The skipjack tuna (''Katsuwonus pelamis'') is a medium-sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Scombridae. It is otherwise known as the balaya (Sri Lanka), bakulan/kayu (North Borneo), tongkol/aya (Malay Peninsula/Indonesia), aku (Hawaii), cakal ...
-fishing. Some species are also valued as food in certain countries, like ''
Spratelloides gracilis'', known as ''
kibinago'' in
Japan
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.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
Spratelloides atrofasciatus''
L. P. Schultz, 1943 (small-banded round herring)
[Ishimori, H., Hidaka, K., Yamamuro, T. & Yoshino, T. (2015): ''Spratelloides atrofasciatus'' Schultz, 1943, a valid species of round herring (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae). ''Zootaxa, 4028 (4): 527–538.'']
* ''
Spratelloides delicatulus
''Spratelloides delicatulus'', the blue sprat, also known as the delicate round herring, blueback sprat, or piha, is a type of sprat-like fish of Indo-Pacific distribution.
See also
*''Kudoa thyrsites''
*List of Lessepsian migrants
Lessepsia ...
''
( E. T. Bennett, 1832) (delicate round herring)
* ''
Spratelloides gracilis''
(Temminck
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist and museum director.
Biography
Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. From his father, Jacob Temminck ...
& Schlegel
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* Brad Schlege ...
, 1846) (silver-stripe round herring)
* ''
Spratelloides lewisi''
Wongratana, 1983 (Lewis' round herring)
* ''
Spratelloides robustus''
J. D. Ogilby, 1897 (fringe-scale round herring)
References
Spratelloides
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
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