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Sprattus fuegensis (chicken sprat; Chilean sprat; Falkland sprat; Falkland herring)

Synonyms: Clupea fuegensis; Sprattus fueguensis
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Fueguian sprat or Falkland sprat, Sprattus fuegensis, is a herring-like, marine fish in the family Clupeidae found in the subtropical southwest Atlantic Ocean from 40° S to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. Its depth range is from the surface to 10 m, and its length is up to 18 cm. Coloration is dark blue dorsally and silvery white laterally and ventrally, and all fins are translucent.
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Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

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1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
2Hector’s dolphin diet: The species, sizes and relative importance of prey eaten by Cephalorhynchus hectori, investigated using stomach content analysis, ELANOR MILLER, CHRIS LALAS, STEVE DAWSON, HILTRUN RATZ, ELISABETH SLOOTEN, Marine Mammal Science 2012
3Jorrit 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.
4Food Habits of the Peale's Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis; Review and New Information, Adrian C.M. Schiavini, R. Natalie P. Goodall, Ann-Katrien Lescrauwaet and Mariano Koen Alonso, REP. INT. WHAL. COMMN 47, 1997, p. 827-834
5Feeding ecology and abundance of two sympatric skates, the shortfin sand skate Psammobatis normani McEachran, and the smallthorn sand skate P. rudis Günther (Chondrichthyes, Rajidae), in the southwest Atlantic , Ezequiel Mabragaña and Diego A. Giberto, ICES J. Mar. Sci. (2007) 64 (5): 1017-1027
6Diet of the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) in northern and southern Chile, C. Herling, B. M. Culik, J. C. Hennicke, Marine Biology (2005) 147: 13–25
7VARIATION IN MAGELLANIC PENGUIN SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS DIET IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS, K.R. THOMPSON, Marine Ornithology 21: 57-67 (1993)
8Yick, Jonah L., Adam Barnett, and Sean R. Tracey. "The trophic ecology of two abundant mesopredators in south-east coastal waters of Tasmania, Australia." Marine Biology 159.6 (2012): 1183+. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 July 2014.
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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