Dorosomatidae

Batangas Sardinella

Sardinella pacifica

Pectoral fin before pelvic origin

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Southeast Asia
• Elongated
• Compressed cross-section
• Small
• Tropical fish

Sardinella pacifica is a species of marine fish of the sardines in the family Clupeidae belonging to the genus Sardinella, which is endemic to the waters around the Philippines. This species was first described in 2019, with 21 preserved specimens, discovered and known only in the Philippines. It is characterized with centrally discontinuous striae in its lateral scales, dorsal fin origin with a dark spot, lower gill rakers which is more than 70 on the first gill arch, eight rays of the pelvic fin, and 17-18 prepelvic and 12-13 postpelvic scutes, all of which it closely resembled that of Sardinella fimbriata.