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Sardinops sagax sagax
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Sardinops sagax sagax

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Sardinops sagax sagax
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Sardinops sagax sagax
Sardinops
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Sardinops
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Overview
Main identification features
  • flank: series black dots
  • elongate, cylindrical
  • mouth large, slightly oblique, at front
  • operculum: oblique bony ridges
  • belly: ridge of keeled scales
SARDINOPS

SARDINES, PILCHARDS

Elongate, cylindrical; lower part of gill cover with bony ridges radiating downwards; mouth at front; dorsal fin at about midbody; pelvics under rear of dorsal; anal fin short with base (<20 rays), origin well behind dorsal.

A circumglobal genus that occurs on subtropical and temperate areas, except for western Atlantic. There is one subtropical species, two of which are endemic to the eastern Pacific.


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