- Black Sea sprat
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Black Sea sprat Conservation status 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.
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.
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Fish of the Black Sea
- Fish of Europe
- Fish of Ukraine
- Clupeonella
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