| Brazilian sardinella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Dorosomatidae |
| Genus: | Sardinella |
| Species: | S. brasiliensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Sardinella brasiliensis (Steindachner, 1879)
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| Synonyms | |
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Sardinella janeiro (C. H. Eigenmann, 1894) | |
Sardinella brasiliensis, (Brazilian sardinella or orangespot sardine) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Sardinella. S. brasilensis are extremely hard to distinguish from Sardinella aurita and are combined in most studies and catch estimates. They spawn in coastal areas during late spring and summer. The most dense spawning periods are in December and January. From 1973 to 1990 the catch in Venezuela was down from 228000 tons to 31000 tons.[2] These fish are present in the Western Atlantic (including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, West Indies all the way down to Brazil[3]
- ^ Di Dario, F. "Sardinella brasiliensis (errata version published in 2019). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018".
- ^ Matsuura, Yasonubu (1998). "Brazilian sardine (Sardinella brasiliensis) spawning in the southeast Brazilian Bight over the period 1976–1993" (PDF). Rev. Bras. Oceanogr. 46 (1): 33–43. doi:10.1590/S1413-77391998000100003. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
- ^ Whitehead, Peter J.P. (1988). Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeoidei). Rome: United Nations Development Programme. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-92-5-102667-0.