Harengula
Sign in to saveHarengula is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Dorosomatidae, the gizzard shads and sarinellas/ The fishes in this genus 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.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderClupeiformes
- FamilyClupeidae
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Harengula is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Dorosomatidae, the gizzard shads and sarinellas/ The fishes in this genus 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 has the following species classified within it: 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)