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Sprattus
Genus of fishes
Sprattus is a genus of small oily fish of the family Clupeidae. They are more usually known by their common name, sprats. There are five species in the genus.
01Species
- Sprattus antipodum (Hector, 1872) (New Zealand blueback sprat)
- Sprattus fuegensis (Jenyns, 1842) (Fueguian sprat)
- Sprattus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1879) (New Zealand sprat)
- Sprattus novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1847) (Australian sprat)
- Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European sprat)
- The most common species of sprat discussed in research is Sprattus sprattus, mostly because of its prevalence in the Baltic Sea.
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