Falkland sprat
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| Falkland sprat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Clupeidae |
| Genus: | Sprattus |
| Species: | S. fuegensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Sprattus fuegensis (Jenyns, 1842) |
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The Falkland sprat, Sprattus fuegensis, is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found in the subtropical southwest Atlantic Ocean from 40° S to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Sprattus fuegensis" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
