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Teleostei (teleosts) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Spratelloididae (Small round herrings)
Etymology: Spratelloides: Old German, sprotte (1611) = a small fish, Clupea sp. + Greek, suffix, oides = similar to (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Temminck & Schlegel.

Issue
The species in the genera Spratelloides Bleeker, 1851 and Jenkinsia Jordan & Evermann, 1896 should most probably be assigned to a separated family from Clupeidae and Dussumieriidae (Lavoué, pers. comm., July 2013). See a preliminary analysis in Lavoué et al. (2013: Ref. 93878).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range ? - 40 m (Ref. 86942). Tropical; 33°N - 30°S, 33°E - 136°W (Ref. 188)

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Indo-Pacific, from Red Sea south to Tanzania and east to Samoa (excluding the Cook, Society and Marquesas islands) and the Tuamoto Islands, north to southern Japan and south to western Australia and Kermadec Islands.

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Maturity: L_m ?, range 4 - ? cm
Max length : 10.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 54980)

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 13; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 12 - 13. Maxilla toothed, triangular pre-maxillae, 2 supra-maxillae, second supra-maxilla asymmetrical (lower part larger than upper part), vertical striae on scales not meeting at center; W-shaped pelvic scute; few branchiostegal rays (6 or 7).

Usually an inshore schooling species, inhabiting relatively clear waters of coastal, lagoon, and seaward reefs (Ref. 11230). Relative fecundity is 1596 eggs per unit body weight (Ref. 4383). Caught with beach seines, purse seines, ringnets and dipnets. Marketed fresh or dried-salted (Ref. 5213). Used as bait in the tuna fishery.

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Oviparous (Ref. 205).

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Whitehead, P.J.P., 1985. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeoidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/1):1-303. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 188)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 28 February 2017

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: minor commercial; bait: usually

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5625 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00513 (0.00321 - 0.00820), b=3.11 (2.97 - 3.25), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.1 ±0.0 se; based on diet studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.41-0.44; tm<1; Fec=505).

Prior r = 1.19, 95% CL = 0.78 - 1.78, Based on 1 data-limited stock assessment.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): High vulnerability (62 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Low.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 753 [190, 6,136] mg/100g; Iron = 9.36 [2.55, 36.03] mg/100g; Protein = 19.4 [16.7, 22.0] %; Omega3 = 0.29 [0.05, 1.73] g/100g; Selenium = 275 [32, 1,847] μg/100g; VitaminA = 4.7 [0.5, 49.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 6.21 [2.11, 17.03] mg/100g (wet weight);

Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)