European pilchard
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Sardina
Antipa, 1904
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S. pilchardus
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Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792)
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European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the monotypic genus Sardina. Littoral species. Forms schools, usually at depths of 25 to 55 or even 100 m by day, rising to 10 to 35 m at night. Feeds mainly on planktonic crustaceans, also on larger organisms. Spawns in batches, in the open sea or near the coast, producing 50,000-60,000 eggs with a mean diameter of 1.5 mm.
Footnotes
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Sardina pilchardus" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
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