Silver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis)

Scientific name: Spratelloides gracilis Temminck & Schlegel, 1846

Silver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis)

The Silver-stripe round herring (Spratelloides gracilis) is a marine fish of the family Clupeidae.

Biology

Usually an inshore schooling species, inhabiting relatively clear waters of coastal, lagoon, and seaward reefs. Relative fecundity is 1596 eggs per unit body weight. Caught with beach seines, purse seines, ringnets and dipnets. Marketed fresh or dried-salted. Used as bait in the tuna fishery.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Spratelloides gracilis
Family
Clupeidae (Herrings, shads and sardines)
Order
Clupeiformes (Herrings)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
10.5
Depth range
10 m (33 ft)
Environment
Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range 10 - ? m
Climate
Tropical
Distribution
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea south to Zanzibar and east to the western Pacific (Japan south through the Philippines to southeastern and western Australia, east to Samoa (excluding the Cook, Society and Marquesas islands) and the Tuamoto Islands. Occurs in Palau and the Marshall Islands.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least Concern (LC)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: minor commercial; bait: usually
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.41-0.44; tm

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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