Harengula

Harengula
Scaled sardine (Harengula jaguana)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Dorosomatidae
Genus:	Harengula Valenciennes, 1847
Type species
Harengula latulus Valenciennes, 1847[1]
Synonyms[1]
Hyrtlinus Fowler, 1958

Harengula is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Dorosomatidae, the gizzard shads and sarinellas/ The fishes in this genus occur mostly in the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, with one species in the eastern Pacific Ocean. There are currently four described species.

Species

Harengula has the following species classified within it:^[2]

• Harengula clupeola (Cuvier, 1829) (False herring)
• Harengula humeralis (Cuvier, 1829) (Redear herring)
• Harengula jaguana Poey, 1865 (Scaled herring)
• Harengula thrissina (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882) (Pacific flatiron herring)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Dorosomatidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Harengula". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 November 2024.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Harengula". FishBase. June 2011 version.