Sprattus
Genus of fishes
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Sprattus is a genus of small oily fish of the family Clupeidae. They are more usually known by their common name, sprats. There are five species in the genus.
| Sprattus | |
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| European sprat, Sprattus sprattus sprattus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Clupeidae |
| Genus: | Sprattus Girgensohn, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Sprattus haleciformis Girgensohn, 1846[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
- Sprattus antipodum (Hector, 1872) (New Zealand blueback sprat)
- Sprattus fuegensis (Jenyns, 1842) (Fueguian sprat)
- Sprattus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1879) (New Zealand sprat)
- Sprattus novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1847) (Australian sprat)
- Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European sprat)
- The most common species of sprat discussed in research is Sprattus sprattus, mostly because of its prevalence in the Baltic Sea.