Slender white sardine

Escualosa elongata

Data Deficient Fish from Western Pacific

Slender white sardine is a marine fish found around Western Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 6.7 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Herrings
Family: Dorosomatidae
Genus: Escualosa
Maximum length: 6.7 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Western Pacific: known only from 2 specimens from the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand (but discovered at the Sunday Market in Bangkok).
Conservation status: DDData Deficient

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