WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome vingtième. Livre vingt et unième. De la famille des Clupéoïdes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. 20: i-xviii + 1 p. + 1-472, Pls. 591-606. [details]
original description
(of Sardinella neohowii Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome vingtième. Livre vingt et unième. De la famille des Clupéoïdes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. 20: i-xviii + 1 p. + 1-472, Pls. 591-606. [details]
original description
(of Alausa scombrina Valenciennes, 1847) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1847). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome vingtième. Livre vingt et unième. De la famille des Clupéoïdes. Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. 20: i-xviii + 1 p. + 1-472, Pls. 591-606. [details]
basis of record
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Unreviewed
Description Forms schools in coastal waters and strongly migratory. Feeds mainly on phytoplankton (especially diatoms), both as juveniles and adults. Breeds once a year off western coasts of India when temperatures and salinity are low during the southwest monsoon months. Spawning peaks in August-September. Occurs at temperatures of 22.0-28.0 °C (Ref. 3689). Marketed fresh, dried and dried-salted. Also sold smoked and canned (Ref. 9987). Also made into fish meal and fish balls <111>. Widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific oceans <360>. [details]
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English |
Indian oil sardine |
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To Barcode of Life (390 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) (from synonym Clupea longiceps (Valenciennes, 1847))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Alausa scombrina Valenciennes, 1847)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Sardinella neohowii Valenciennes, 1847)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sardinella longiceps)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sardinella neohowii Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase (from synonym Alausa scombrina Valenciennes, 1847)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea longiceps (Valenciennes, 1847))
To FishBase images (Sardinella longiceps, Oman, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (11152 nucleotides; 1037 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sardinella longiceps FIN027963 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sardinella longiceps FIN027964 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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