''Spratelloides robustus'', the blue sprat, also known as the fringe-scale round herring, blue bait or blue sardine, is a type of
sprat 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 ...
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Description and behavior
The ''Spratelloides robustus'' has no spine, but has 10–14 Dorsal soft ray
Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fish. It can be contrasted with fish physiology, which is the study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. In practice, fish anatomy and fish physiology co ...
s, 9–14 Anal soft rays, and 46–47 vertebrae, and a W-shaped pelvic scute. The males can grow up to . They are oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
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Distribution and habititat
The ''Spratelloides robustus'' mainly lives around southern Australia
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, at a range from the Dampier Archipelago to the south of Queensland
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, including Tasmania
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Footnotes
Fish described in 1897
Spratelloides
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