Black Sea sprat

Black Sea sprat
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Clupeidae
Subfamily:	Clupeinae
Genus:	Clupeonella
Species:	C. cultriventris
Binomial name
Clupeonella cultriventris (Nordmann, 1840)
Synonyms
Clupea cultriventris Nordmann, 1840 Clupea cultriventris tscharchalensis (non Borodin, 1896) Clupea delicatula Nordmann, 1840 Clupeonella cultiventris (Nordmann, 1840) Clupeonella delicatula (Nordmann, 1840) Clupeonella delicatula azovi Vladimirov, 1950 Clupeonella delicatula caspia (non Svetovidov, 1941) Clupeonella delicatula cultriventris (Nordmann, 1840)

The Black Sea sprat, Clupeonella cultriventris, is a small fish of the herring family, Clupeidae. It is found in the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It has white-grey flesh and silver-grey scales. This fish has a lifetime of 6 years, a length of 14–15 cm and is around 12% fat in flesh. The peak of its spawning is in April and it can be found in enormous shoals in sea-shores, filled all-round coastal shallows, moving quickly back in the sea at a depth of 6-30 meters. Used for food.

Fishes Black Sea sprat

References

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). Clupeonella cultriventris. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 08 May 2006.
• "Clupeonella cultriventris". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=161819. Retrieved 11 March 2006. 
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Clupeonella cultriventris" in FishBase. August 2005 version.