Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Pellonula leonensis Boulenger, 1916 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Microthrissa afzeliusi (Johnels, 1954) (synonym)

Microthrissa miri Daget, 1954 (synonym)

Microthrissa normanae Whitehead, 1986 (synonym)

Microthrissa sp. Not applicable (ambiguous synonym)

Pellonula afzeliusi Johnels, 1954 (synonym)

Pellonula afzeliusi subsp. miri (Daget, 1954) (synonym)

Pellonula azeliusi Johnels, 1954 (synonym)

Pellonula miri (Daget, 1954) (synonym)

Pelonula afzeliusi Johnels, 1954 (synonym)

Common names:

小齒寬頜鯡 Mandarin Chinese

小齿宽颌鲱 Mandarin Chinese

米氏宽颌鲱 Mandarin Chinese

米氏寬頜鯡 Mandarin Chinese

諾曼小棱鯡 Mandarin Chinese

诺曼小棱鲱 Mandarin Chinese

Banabanagi Nupe

Espadilha-da-Guiné Portuguese

Guinean sprat English

Isoun Ijo

Muffin sprat English

Ntita Igbo

Pelonula sierraleonská Czech

Salanpore Yoruba

Sardine Arabic, Creole, French, Dutch, English, French, German

Sardinita guineana Spanish

Smalltoothed pellonula English

Småtandet pellonula-sild Danish

Spratelle de Guinée French

Taga rana Hausa

Totivi Ewe

Waranga Hausa

Worongi Hausa, Igbo

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 Pellonula

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Distribution:

Zaïre; Volta; Togo; Tano; Sierra Leone; Senegal; Saloum; Sanaga; Sassandra River; Saint John; Pra River; Ouémé River; Nipoué; Nigeria; Niger; Mauritania; Mali; Liberia; Lake Chad/Chari River; Kainji Lake; Guinea-Bissau; Guinea Current; Guinea; Great Scarcies; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Fatala; Ethiopian; Equatorial Guinea; Ébrié Lagoon; Cross River; Côte d'Ivoire; Congo, Republic of; Congo, Dem. Rep. of the; Comoé River; Chad; Cavally River; Cameroon; Burkina Faso; Benue River; Benin; Bandama River; Angola; Atlantic, Eastern Central; Africa-Inland Waters; Africa: lagoons, lakes, lower and upper reaches of rivers from Senegal to Cameroon, also in lower reaches of coastal river basins from Cameroon to Democratic Republic of the Congo, upper Niger and lower Benue, apparently not in upper parts of Congo syste

Additional data:

Also Ref. 2244.

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 23-Jul-1994

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:40603026-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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