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Dorosomatidae
flatiron herring
Harengula thrissina
Fish Reaching Eighteen Point Four Centimeters in the Pacific Ocean
flatiron herring is a fish of Eastern Pacific. Records give a maximum length of 18.4 cm. Its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Harengula
- Maximum length
- 18.4 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Pacific: La Jolla, California to Peru (at least to Callao), including the Gulf of California (Ref. 35601 ). (This species seems to have two forms or subspecies: Harengula thrissina thrissina from the Gulf of California to Panama and Harengula thrissina peruana from Panama to Peru).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

