Ehiravinae

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Ehiravinae
Tyulka sardine (Clupeonella cultriventris)

Tyulka sardine ( Clupeonella cultriventris )

Systematics
Overcohort : Clupeocephala
Cohort : Otomorpha
Order : Herring-like (Clupeiformes)
Subordination : Clupeoidei
Family : Herring (Clupeidae)
Subfamily : Ehiravinae
Scientific name
Ehiravinae
Deraniyagala , 1929

The Ehiravinae are a subfamily of the herring (Clupeidae), which occurs mainly in freshwater and brackish water biotopes on the coast of the western Indo-Pacific.

features

With the exception of the Clupeonella species, which can be up to 20 cm long, the Ehiravinae are small fish that only reach body lengths of a maximum of 9 cm. The monophyly of the subfamily is supported by three molecular characteristics and possibly by a morphological characteristic, namely the fusion of two vertebral centers in the caudal spine ("fusion of the first ural centrum with the first preural centrum"). The latter does not occur in Clupeoides , although this is considered a secondary loss.

Genera and species

The 74 million year old extinct genus Lecceclupea from Apulia, which Louis Taverne described in 2011 and assigned to the Ehiravini tribe , also belongs to the subfamily .

use

The subfamily is only of economic importance in the Caspian Sea , where various Clupeonella species are fished, as well as the catch of Sundasalanx in Indonesia and Corica soborna in Bangladesh.

literature

  • Sébastien Lavoué, Peter Konstantinidis & Wei-Jen Chen: Progress in Clupeiform Systematics. in Konstantinos Ganias (Ed.): Biology and Ecology of Sardines and Anchovies. CRC Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1482228540

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