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Alosidae
Gulf menhaden
Brevoortia patronus
Thirty Five Centimeters Alosid Fish from the Caribbean Sea
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
MediumGulf menhaden is a marine fish of Western Central Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 35 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Alosidae
- Genus
- Brevoortia
- Maximum length
- 35 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico (Florida Bay, Gulf of Campeche, Mexico), but no certain records from Caribbean.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
