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Dorosomatidae
spotback herring
Herklotsichthys punctatus
Spotted Dorosomatid Fish of the Red Sea
- Blue
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Small
- Tropical fish
Blue
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Smallspotback herring is known from Western Indian Ocean as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Herklotsichthys
- Maximum length
- 11.7 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea and possibly Gulf of Aden; an immigrant into eastern Mediterranean Sea (Ref. 188 ). The names Herklotsichthys punctata and Herklotsichthys punctatus have been widely misused in the literature for another species, Herklotsichthys quadrimaculatus (Ref. 188 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
