Javelin rainbow sardine

Dussumieria productissima

Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Indian Ocean
Africa
South Asia
Tropical fish

The slender rainbow sardine (Dussumieria elopsoides) is a small, subtropical, salt water fish of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea which was first described by Bleeker in 1849. Dussumieria hasselti and Dussumieria productissima are synonyms for this same fish. It is a round herring of the family Clupeidae.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Herrings
Family: Dussumieriidae
Genus: Dussumieria
Water: Marine
Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden (Yemen), Red Sea (Egypt) and western coast of India. Lessepsian migrant to the Mediterranean.

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