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| Gulf menhaden | |
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| Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus), captured in Galveston Bay, TX | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Alosidae |
| Genus: | Brevoortia |
| Species: | B. patronus
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| Binomial name | |
| Brevoortia patronus Goode, 1878
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The Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) is a small marine filter-feeding fish belonging to the family Alosidae. The range of Gulf menhaden encompasses the entirety of the Gulf of Mexico nearshore waters, with the exception of the extreme eastern Yucatan and western Cuba.[2] Evidence from morphology [3] and DNA analyses [4] suggest that the Gulf menhaden is the Gulf of Mexico complement to the Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus). Both species support large commercial reduction fisheries,[5] with Gulf menhaden supporting the second largest fishery, by weight, in the United States.[6]
- ^ Collette, B.; Grubbs, D.; Pezold, F.; Simons, J.; Carlson, J.; Caruso, J.; McEachran, J.D.; Brenner, J.; Tornabene, L.; Robertson, R.; Chakrabarty, P. (2015). "Brevoortia patronus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T191208A1972860. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T191208A1972860.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ FAO 2002. The living marine resources of the western central Atlantic. ASIH special publication No. 5, Kent E. Carpenter, ed. ISSN 1020-6868.
- ^ Dahlberg, M.D. 1970. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico menhadens, genus Brevoortia (Pisces:Clupeidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 15:91-162.
- ^ Anderson, J.D. 2007. Systematics of the North American menhadens: molecular evolutionary reconstructions in the genus Brevoortia (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae). Fishery Bulletin 205:368-378.
- ^ Vaughan, D.S. and C. Strobeck. 1998. Assessment and management of Atlantic and Gulf menhaden stocks. Marine Fishery Review 53, 47-55.
- ^ Pritchard, E.S. 2005. Fisheries of the United States 2004. Silver Spring, MD: National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Science and Technology, pp. 1-19.