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Clupeidae
Pacific menhaden
Ethmidium maculatum
Clupeid Fish of the Pacific Ocean
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
MediumPacific menhaden is a marine fish from Southwest Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 31.2 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Clupeidae
- Genus
- Ethmidium
- Maximum length
- 31.2 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Southwest Pacific: Peru (Puerto Pizarro in Gulf of Guayaquil to Callao and Pisco Bay; presumably to border with Chile, but no records) and Chile (whole coast south to Talcahuano).
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Conservation status
