Sardinella melanura Blacktip sardinella

Sardinella melanurais commonly referred to as Blacktip sardinella. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Dr. John Ernest (Jack) Randall (†), Hawaii

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Scientific:: Sardinella melanura
German:: Sardine
English:: Blacktip Sardinella

Category:: Herrings

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Clupeiformes (Order) > Clupeidae (Family) > Sardinella (Genus) > melanura (Species)
Initial determination:: (Cuvier, ), 1829

Occurrence:: Kuwait, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arabian Sea, Australia, China, Comores, Fiji, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Bengal / Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Réunion , Samoa, Solomon Islands, South China Sea, Taiwan, Tansania, the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Seychelles, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen
Size:: 3.94" - 6.1" (10cm - 15.5cm)
Temperature:: 71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C)
Food:: Copepods, Daphnia salina, Invertebrates, Mysis, Nekton, Zooplankton
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!
Offspring:: None
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Sardinella albella
Sardinella atricauda
Sardinella aurita
Sardinelle
Sardinella brachysoma
Sardinella brasiliensis
Sardinella fijiense
Sardinella fimbriata
Sardinella gibbosa
Sardinella hualiensis
Sardinella jussieu
Sardinella lemuru
Sardinella longiceps
Sardinella maderensis
Madeira-Sardine
Sardinella marquesensis
Sardinella melanura
Sardine
Sardinella neglecta
Sardinella richardsoni
Sardinella rouxi
"Gelbschwanz"Sardine
Sardinella sindensis
Sardinella tawilis
Sardinella zunasi

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2016-02-01 12:12:50
Last edit:: 2016-02-01 12:12:50

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(Cuvier, 1829)

Synonyms:
Clupea commersonii (Valenciennes, 1847)
Clupea melanura Cuvier, 1829
Clupea otaitensis Valenciennes, 1847
Clupeonia commersoni Valenciennes, 1847
Clupeonia commersonii Valenciennes, 1847
Clupeonia vittata Valenciennes, 1847
Harengula melanura (Cuvier, 1829)
Harengula vanicoris Jordan & Seale, 1906
Harengula vittata (Valenciennes, 1847)
Herklotsichthys vittatus (Valenciennes, 1847)
Sardinella melaneura (Cuvier, 1829)
Sardinella nigricaudata Chan, 1965

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Clupeiformes (Order) > Clupeidae (Family) > Sardinella (Genus) > Sardinella melanura (Species)

Scientific paper

Synaptobothrioides sardinellaen. g., n. sp. (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from the blacktip sardinellaSardinella melanura(Clupeidae) off Fiji, and records of two other hemiuroids in Fijian waters, Rodney A. Bray; Fuad M. Nahhas, 2002
Preservation of the Sardine Sardinella melanura by Low-Dose Gamma Radiation, Hashish, S.; Roushdy, H. M.; Hussein, M. F.; Abdel-Baki, M. M.; Hassan, Y. M. , 1966

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Copyright Dr. J. E. Randall, Foto: Ambon, Indonesien

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