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Dorosomatidae
White sardine
Escualosa thoracata
Fish Reaching Ten Centimeters in Philippine Waters
White sardine is known around Indo-West Pacific as a fish; It occurs in estuaries and brackish water, and records give a maximum length of 10 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Escualosa
- Maximum length
- 10 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: northern Indian Ocean (Karachi eastward to Rangoon) to Thailand, Indonesia (Java Sea), the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

