Dussumieria
Genus of fishes
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Dussumieria is the genus of rainbow sardines, a group within the round herring family Dussumieriidae. They are found in Indo-Pacific.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Dussumieriidae |
| Genus: | Dussumieria Valenciennes, 1847 |
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Species
The following is a list of currently accepted living Dussumieria species:[2]
- Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847 (Rainbow sardine)
- Dussumieria albulina Fowler, 1934 (Lancer rainbow sardine)
- Dussumieria apollo Hata, Lavoué, Appleyard & Pogonoski, 2025 (Australian rainbow sardine)[3]
- Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849 (Slender rainbow sardine)
- Dussumieria hasselti Bleeker, 1851 (Hasselt's rainbow sardine)
- Dussumieria modakandai Singh, Jayakumar, Kumar, Murali, Mishra, Singh & Lal, 2022 (Soft rainbow sardine)
- Dussumieria productissima Chabanaud, 1933 (Javelin rainbow sardine)
- Dussumieria torpedo Hata, Lavoué & Motomura, 2021 (African rainbow sardine)
The earliest known fossil species is D. elami Arambourg, 1967 from the ?Late Eocene of Iran (Pabdeh Formation) and potentially the Early Oligocene of Romania.[4][5]
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