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Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849

Slender rainbow sardine
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Turkey country information

Common names: Hint sardalyası
Occurrence: introduced
Salinity: marine
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref: Walford, L. and R. Wicklund, 1973
Importance: minor commercial | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: A lessepsian migrant. Recorded from the entire coastline from Iskenderun Bay to Fethiye Bay, Mersin and Levantine coasts, where abundance is higher at the northeastern Levant and reducing westward (Ref. 94612). Yearly catch by purse seines (fishing with lights) and trawls in 30-50 m does not exceed 50 t (Ref. 6328). Out of distributional range, occurrence needs verification (Ref. 57855). Also Ref. 5385, 43448 and 50162.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Bilecenoğlu, M., Taskavak E., S. Mater and M. Kaya, 2002
National Database: CLOMFOT

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Dussumieriidae (Round herrings)
Etymology: Dussumieria: In honor of Dussumier, a collaborator of Cuvier, who sent him collections of fishes from the Indian Ocean (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Bleeker.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range 0 - 50 m (Ref. 188).   Subtropical; 31°N - 26°S, 32°E - 168°W (Ref. 188)

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