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Clupeoides

genus of fishes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ957933 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clupeoides is a genus of sprats that occur in rivers in Southeast Asia. There are currently four recognized species in the genus.

Species

Clupeoides borneensis Bleeker, 1851 (Borneo river sprat)

Clupeoides hypselosoma Bleeker, 1866 (Kalimantan river sprat)

Clupeoides papuensis (E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1886) (Papuan river sprat)

Clupeoides venulosus M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1912 (West Irian river sprat)

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Clupeoides". FishBase. June 2011 version.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clupeoides” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.