Slender Sprat
Spratelloides gracilis
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The silver-stripe round herring, slender sprat, or Kibinago minnow is a small, herring-like forage fish. They are small fish used as fishing bait, especially in skipjack tuna-fishing. It is valued as food in Japan, where it is known as kibinago. These can be eaten raw, as sashimi, or cooked, as whitebait.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Clupeiformes
- Family
- Spratelloididae
- Genus
- Spratelloides