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Dussumieria modakandai Singh, Jayakumar, Kumar, Murali, Mishra, Singh & Lal, 2021

Soft rainbow sardine
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Dussumieriidae (Round herrings)
Etymology: Dussumieria: In honor of Dussumier, a collaborator of Cuvier, who sent him collections of fishes from the Indian Ocean (Ref. 45335);  modakandai: Name derived from two vernacular words in Tamil language, 'moda' for soft and 'kandai' for fish, jointly for soft fish; as an adjective..

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

Marine; pelagic-neritic. Tropical

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Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea (Israel), Iran and India to the Philippines; north to Japan and south to Indonesia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 16.3 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 127746)

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The species is distinguished by the following set of characters: maxilla long (9.1%–9.9% SL); palatine with 1-2 rows of small conical teeth; no parasphenoid teeth; no longitudinal striae on posterior side of body scales and melanophores scattered on first to ninth pectoral-fin rays from uppermost ray (Ref. 127746)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Hata, H., S. Lavoué and H. Motomura, 2022. Redescriptions of Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849 and related nominal species led to the revalidation of Dussumieria hasseltii Bleeker, 1851 and Dussumieria productissima Chabanaud, 1933 (Clupeiformes: Dussumieriidae). The European Zool. J, 89(1):1129-1158. (Ref. 127744)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.4   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).