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Species of fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Zealand sprat (Sprattus muelleri) is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found in the subtropical southwest Pacific Ocean endemic to New Zealand. It belongs to a genus Sprattus of small oily fish, usually known by their common name, sprats.
New Zealand sprat | |
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New zealand sprat | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Clupeiformes |
Family: | Clupeidae |
Genus: | Sprattus |
Species: | S. muelleri |
Binomial name | |
Sprattus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1879) | |
Its depth range is from the surface to 110 m, and its length is up to 13 cm.
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