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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Harengula

WoRMS 204605ITIS 161752key worms:204605
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161752 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Ophisthonema oglinum

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Scaled sardine (Harengula jaguana). Gulf of Mexico. Credit: SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC.
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons

Harengula is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Dorosomatidae, the gizzard shads and sarinellas/ The fishes in this genus occur mostly in the western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, with one species in the eastern Pacific Ocean. There are currently four described species.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2004.R

3
observations
3
records
1998–2004
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:204605")