Biology:Sardinella albella
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Short description: Species of fish
White sardinella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Clupeiformes |
Family: | Dorosomatidae |
Genus: | Sardinella |
Species: | S. albella
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Binomial name | |
Sardinella albella (Valenciennes, 1847)
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The white sardinella (Sardinella albella), also known as deep-bodied sardine, perforated-scale sardine or short-bodied sardine, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella.[1] It is an important food fish, which can be feed as dried, salted, or fresh forms.
Description
It is distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific oceans from Madagascar , around India , Sri Lanka, and eastward to Indonesia, Taiwan and south to Papua New Guinea.
It is a small schooling fish found in depth of 20-50m. Maximum length do not exceed 21.5 cm. The fish has 13 to 21 dorsal soft rays and 12 to 23 anal soft rays. There is a dark spot at origin part of dorsal fin. It feeds on small planktons.
See also
- List of common commercial fish of Sri Lanka
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Sardinella albella" in FishBase. August 2014 version.
- IUCN Red List
- WoRMS
- Prevalence of Nerocila depressa (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) on Sardinella albella from a Thai estuary
Wikidata ☰ Q2301881 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinella albella.
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