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Clupeidae
Jenyns's sprat
Ramnogaster arcuata
Clupeid Fish of the Brazilian Coast
- Tropical
- Estuary
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
SmallJenyns's sprat is known from Southwest Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Clupeidae
- Genus
- Ramnogaster
- Maximum length
- 9 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Southwest Atlantic: southern Brazil (estuary of the Lagoa dos Patos) and Uruguay to at least Bahía Blanca, Argentina; some of the more southerly records (even to the Beagle Channel) must refer to Sprattus fuegensis .
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
