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Spratelloides gracilis (silver stripe round herring; Silver-stripe round herring; Striped round herring; Slender sprat; Slender roundherring; Silverstriped round herring; Silver sprat; Silver round herring; Banded blue sprat)

Synonyms: Clupea argyrotaeniata; Clupea gracilis; Spratelloides atrofasciatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The silver-stripe round herring or slender sprat (Spratelloides gracilis) is a small herring-like forage fish. They are small fish used as fishing bait, especially in skipjack tuna-fishing. It is valued as food in Japan, where it is known as kibinago. These can be eaten raw, as sashimi, or cooked, as whitebait. \n* Sashimi of kibinago (silver-stripe round herring) \n* Kibinago sashimi with chopsticks \n* Grilled kibinago
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia

Predators

Fistularia commersonii (Bluespotted cornetfish)[1]
Tylosurus crocodilus (houndfish)[1]
Uroteuthis edulis (swordtip squid)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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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