Ethmidium
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Clupeidae |
| Genus: | Ethmidium W. F. Thompson, 1916 |
| Species: | E. maculatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Ethmidium maculatum (Valenciennes, 1847)
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Ethmidium is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, the herrings and sprats. The only species in the genus is Ethmidium maculatum, the Pacific menhaden, a species found along the Pacific coast of South America off Peru and Chile.
References
[edit]- ^ Di Dario, F. (2020). "Ethmidium maculatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T183709A102895124. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ethmidium maculatum". FishBase. June 2024 version.
External links
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ethmidium maculatum". FishBase. June 2011 version.
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