Ethmidium
Species of fish
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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.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Clupeidae |
| Genus: | Ethmidium W. F. Thompson, 1916 |
| Species: | E. maculatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Ethmidium maculatum (Valenciennes, 1847) | |
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