Silver-stripe Round Herring
Spratelloides gracilis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
Also calledHareng gracile (fra) · Kibinago (jpn) · arenquillo de banda (spa) · šprotek štíhlý (ces) · Изящная кибинаго (rus) · ރެހި (div) · ปลากะตักหัวแข็งเรียว (tha) · キビナゴ (jpn) · リュウキュウキビナゴ (jpn) · 丁香魚 (zho) · 日本銀帶鯡 (zho) · 샛줄멸 (kor)
The silver-stripe round herring, slender sprat, or Kibinago minnow (Spratelloides gracilis) is a small, herring-like forage fish. They are small fish used as fishing bait, especially in skipjack tuna-fishing. It is valued as food in Japan, where it is known as kibinago. These can be eaten raw, as sashimi, or cooked, as whitebait.
== References ==
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Samoa and Tuamotu Archipelago, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia and Queensland (Australia). Pelagic, schooling in inshore waters near reefs, 0 – 40 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover by Dalzell (1985: 230); specimens observed north of Nusalomon Island, Kavieng District, 1 – 24 m depth, St. T 1, on 30 Oct. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen; also at Balang Island, New Hanover, 1 – 18 m depth, St. T 21, 7 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2412980.