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Strangomera bentincki (Araucanian herring; Chilean herring)

Synonyms: Clupea bentincki; Clupea bentincki cuga
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Araucanian herring, Clupea bentincki, is a fish species in the Clupea genus of the Clupeidae family. It is an epipelagic fish, silvery below and dark blue above, which schools in coastal waters off the west coast of South America. There it filter feeds on smaller plankton such as diatoms. It reaches sexual maturity when it is about 10 centimetres long, and is a pelagic spawner, spawning between June and November.
View Wikipedia Record: Strangomera bentincki

Predators

Cephalorhynchus eutropia (Chilean Dolphin)[1]
Otaria byronia (South American Sealion)[2]
Spheniscus humboldti (Humboldt Penguin)[3]
Sula variegata (Peruvian Booby)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ancyrocephalus parvus[5]
Neoechinorhynchus cylindratus[5]
Neoechinorhynchus rostratus[5]
Nudaciraxine gracilis[5]
Prosorhynchoides gracilescens[5]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Hector’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
♦ 2Feeding ecology of the South American sea lion Otaria flavescens: food contents and food selectivity, Mario George-Nascimento, Rodrigo Bustamante and Ciro Oyarzun, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 21 135-143, 1985
♦ 3Diet 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
♦ 4Distribution and foraging behaviour of the Peruvian Booby (Sula variegata) off northern Chile, Katrin Ludynia, Stefan Garthe, Guillermo Luna-Jorquera, Journal of Ornithology (2010) 151:103–111
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
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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