| Harengula | |
|---|---|
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| Scaled sardine (Harengula jaguana) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Dorosomatidae |
| Genus: | Harengula Valenciennes, 1847 |
Harengula is a genus of herrings that occur mostly in the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, with one species in the eastern Pacific Ocean. There are currently four described species.
Species
- Harengula clupeola (Cuvier, 1829) (False herring)
- Harengula humeralis (Cuvier, 1829) (Redear herring)
- Harengula jaguana Poey, 1865 (Scaled herring)
- Harengula thrissina (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Pacific flatiron herring)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Harengula in FishBase. June 2011 version.
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