Biology:Dussumieria

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Dussumieria is the genus of rainbow sardines, a group within the round herring family Dussumieriidae. They are found in Indo-Pacific.[1]

Species

The following is a list of currently accepted living Dussumieria species:[2]

  • Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847 (Rainbow sardine)
  • Dussumieria albulina Fowler, 1934 (Lancer rainbow sardine)
  • Dussumieria apollo Hata, Lavoué, Appleyard & Pogonoski, 2025 (Australian rainbow sardine)[3]
  • Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849 (Slender rainbow sardine)
  • Dussumieria hasselti Bleeker, 1851 (Hasselt's rainbow sardine)
  • Dussumieria modakandai Singh, Jayakumar, Kumar, Murali, Mishra, Singh & Lal, 2022 (Soft rainbow sardine)
  • Dussumieria productissima Chabanaud, 1933 (Javelin rainbow sardine)
  • Dussumieria torpedo Hata, Lavoué & Motomura, 2021 (African rainbow sardine)

The earliest known fossil species is D. elami Arambourg, 1967 from the ?Late Eocene of Iran (Pabdeh Formation) and potentially the Early Oligocene of Romania.[4][5]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Dussumieria in FishBase. August 2012 version.
  2. "FishBase" (in en). https://www.fishbase.us. 
  3. Hata, Harutaka; Lavoué, Sébastien; Appleyard, Sharon A.; Pogonoski, John J. (2025-02-05). "A New Species of Rainbow Sardine in the Genus Dussumieria (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Dussumieriidae) from New Guinea and Australia". Ichthyology & Herpetology 113 (1): 8–20. doi:10.1643/i2024023. ISSN 2766-1512. https://bioone.org/journals/ichthyology-and-herpetology/volume-113/issue-1/i2024023/A-New-Species-of-Rainbow-Sardine-in-the-Genus-Dussumieria/10.1643/i2024023.full. 
  4. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France); naturelle (France), Muséum national d'histoire (1966). Notes et mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient. t.8 (1966). Paris: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/281269. 
  5. "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=358034. 

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