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Clupeonella cultriventris (Azovtyulka; Black Sea sprat; Clupeonella; Kilka; Tyulka sprat; Common kilka; Black and Caspian Sea sprat; Azov Sea sprat; Azov kilka)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Black Sea sprat, Clupeonella cultriventris, is a small fish of the herring family, Clupeidae. It is found in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov and rivers of its basins: Danube, Dniester, Dnieper, Southern Bug, Don, Kuban. It has white-grey flesh and silver-grey scales. A typical size is 10 cm (maximum 15 cm) The life span is of up to 5 years. The peak of its spawning is in April and it can be found in enormous shoals in sea-shores, filled all-round coastal shallows, moving quickly back in the sea at a depth of 6–30 metres. Used for food; it has around 12% fat in flesh.
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Infraspecies

Clupea cultriventris var. cultriventris
Clupeonella cultriventris cultriventris
Clupeonella cultriventris muhlisi

Attributes

Female Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [3]  2 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Migration [2]  Anadromous

Prey / Diet

Bythotrephes longimanus (spiny waterflea)[4]
Chydorus sphaericus[4]
Daphnia longispina[4]
Eurytemora velox[4]

Predators

Esox lucius (Jack)[4]
Mnemiopsis leidyi (Leidy's comb jelly)[4]
Percarina maeotica (Azov percarina)[4]
Phalacrocorax carbo (Great Cormorant)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIET OF IRANIAN BIRDS, Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh, Mohammad E. Sehhatisabet, Екологія, Беркут 15, Вип. 1-2. 2006. pp. 145-150
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0