Slender Rainbow Sardine
Dussumieria elopsoides
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The slender rainbow sardine is a small, subtropical, salt water fish of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea which was first described by Bleeker in 1849. Dussumieria hasselti and Dussumieria productissima are synonyms for this same fish. It is a round herring of the family Clupeidae.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Clupeiformes
- Family
- Dussumieriidae
- Genus
- Dussumieria