Sprats
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European sprat ( Sprattus sprattus ) |
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| Girgensohn , 1846 |
Sprat ( Sprattus ) are a genus of marine , pelagic living pegs (Clupeidae). They are schooling fish , feed on plankton and are around 12 to 20 centimeters long. Four of the five species live in temperate and subtropical seas of the southern hemisphere, only the European sprat ( Sprattus sprattus ) occurs with two subspecies in the northern Atlantic , the Mediterranean , the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea ; it is one of the most important European commercial fish. Sprats that live in cold water have a higher number of eddies than those of warmer waters, a phenomenon they share with the herring and other related species.
species
- Sprattus antipodum (Hector, 1872)
- Falkland sprat ( Sprattus fuegensis ) (Jenyns, 1842)
- Sprattus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1879)
- Sprattus novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Baltic sprat ( Sprattus sprattus balticus ) (Schneider, 1908)
- European sprat ( Sprattus sprattus sprattus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
Nutritional value
Smoked sprats are among the foods with the highest levels of purine . From gout or elevated uric acid levels in the blood , therefore, should avoid sprat benefit sufferers.
swell
- Kurt Deckert, Gisela Deckert , GE Freytag, G. Peters, G. Sterba: Urania animal kingdom, fish, amphibians, reptiles. Urania-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-332-00376-3 .
- Fishbase Valid Species of the Genus Sprattus
