White Sardine
Escualosa thoracata
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The white sardine is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae. It was described by Achille Valenciennes in 1847. It is a tropical fish of the Indo-Pacific distributed from Thailand to Indonesia and Australia. Other common names include deep herring and northern herring.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Clupeiformes
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Escualosa