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Dorosomatidae
false pilchard
Harengula clupeola
Flesh carries an unpleasant odor
- Blue
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Blue
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Mediumfalse pilchard is known from Western Atlantic as a fish. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 31.3 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Harengula
- Maximum length
- 31.3 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Florida to northern Brazil, including the Bahamas, the entire Caribbean and the West Indies.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
