Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Opisthonema libertate (Günther, 1867) (accepted name)

Synonym:

Meletta libertatis Günther, 1867 (synonym)

Common names:

Alaccia vessillifera Italian

Arenque de hebra Spanish

Chardin du Pacifique French

Deep-bodied thread herring English

Faux hareng du Pacifique French

Machete do Pacífico Portuguese

Machuelo del Pacifico Spanish

Pacific thread herring English

Pacifische draadvinnige haring Dutch

Pazifischer Fadenhering German

Plumuda do Pacífico Portuguese

Stillehavs-trådsild Danish

太平洋后丝鲱 Mandarin Chinese

太平洋後絲鯡 Mandarin Chinese

Chardin fil French

Chavelo Spanish

Deep-bodied Pacific thread herring English

Deepbody thread herring English

Dinamarca Spanish

Herink vysokotelý Czech

Machelo hebra pinchagua Spanish

Machete de hebra Spanish

Machete del Norte Spanish

Machete-do-Pacífico Portuguese

Machuelo hebra pinchagua Spanish

Opistonema pacyficzna Polish

Pacifisk trådsild Danish

Pinchagua Spanish

Pinchagua común Spanish

Sardina Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, English, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Maltese, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish

Sardina crinuda Spanish

Stillahavstrådsill Swedish

Stillehavstrådsild Danish

Thread herring English

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Clupeiformes

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Family Clupeidae

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Genus Opisthonema

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Distribution:

USA (contiguous states); Peru-Galapagos Waters; Peru; Panama; Pacific, Southeast; Pacific, Eastern Central; Pacific Ocean; Pacific Central-American Coastal; Nicaragua; Mexico; Laguna del Mar Muerto; Honduras; Gulf of California; Guatemala; Galapagos Islands; El Salvador; Ecuador; Eastern Pacific: Santa Rosalita, Pacific coast of Baja, California, Mexico southward to Punta Sal and Punta Picos, Peru. (Earlier works probably combined data for Opisthonema bulleri and Opisthonema medirastre). Range is extended northwar; Costa Rica; Colombia; California Current

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 04-Jul-1995

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:4022c8b6-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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