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Alosidae
finescale menhaden
Brevoortia gunteri
Alosid Fish of Western Central Atlantic
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Mediumfinescale menhaden is known around Western Central Atlantic as a fish; Records give a maximum length of 30 cm, and its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Alosidae
- Genus
- Brevoortia
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico (Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Campeche, Mexico) but no certain records from Caribbean. Also Yucatan (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
