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| Species: | A. leiogaster
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| Amblygaster leiogaster (Valenciennes, 1847)
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The Smoothbelly sardinella, (Amblygaster leiogaster), is a reef-associated marine species of sardinellas in the herring family Clupeidae. It is one of the three species of genus Amblygaster. It is found in the marine waters along Indo-West Pacific regions towards south western Australia. The fish has 13 to 21 dorsal soft rays and 12 to 23 anal soft rays. It grows up to a maximum length of 23cm. The flank is gold in fresh fish but becomes black while preservation. Belly is more rounded and scutes are not prominent. It is rather closely resemble Amblygaster clupeoides, but the latter has very few lower gill rakers than Smoothbelly sardinella. The fish feeds on minute organisms like zooplankton. [2][3]
Common Names[4]
Due to high value as a commercial fish in largescale fishing industry, the fish has so many vernacular names.
- Bikol (Philippines) - Lupnos, Taporok
- Czech - Sleď indooceánský
- Danish - Almindelig glatmavesardin
- English - Blue sardine, Blue sprat, Bluebait, Smoothbelly sardinella
- French - Sardinelle daniva
- Japanese - Mangurobu-iwashi, Yamato-mizun
- Javanese - Ciro, Lemuru, Siro
- Malay - Tamban, Tamban siantan
- Malayalam - Keerimeen
- Sinhala - Gal hurulla, Keeramin, Mapolama,
- Spanish - Sardinela daniva
- Tamil - Keerimeen chalai
- Vietnamese - Cá Lầm
See Also
References
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=1500&SynCode=23339&GenusName=Amblygaster&SpeciesName=leiogaster
- ^ ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac482e/AC482E16.pdf
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/1500
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=1500&GenusName=Amblygaster&SpeciesName=leiogaster&StockCode=1693
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