Species FAO code: HCU

Harengula humeralis

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Commercial designations
Production methods and fishing gears
Species distribution and habitat
Species description

Commercial designations

Country	Commercial designations	Names accepted or permitted locally or regionally
France	fr harengule	–

Main production methods

Caught

Main fishing gears

List item: Seines

Seines

Source: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. FishBase. Harengula humeralis (Cuvier, 1829)

Habitat

Saltwater

FAO major fishing areas

Source: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. FishBase. Harengula humeralis (Cuvier, 1829)

Scientific name

Harengula humeralis

Author

(Cuvier, 1829)

Rank

Species

FAO code

HCU

Morphological description

Tooth plate on tongue and tooth plate behind it (basihyal and basibranchial tooth plates) very narrow, their width about 10 times in combined length, the basihyal tooth plate not bulging in front. Scales thin, loosely attached, easily shed. Tips of anterior dorsal fin rays dark. Reddish or orange spot behind upper end of gill (Ref. 26938). Body slender, with evenly curved upper and lower profiles (Ref. 7251).

Taxonomic classification

ClassActinopterygii
- OrderClupeiformes
  - FamilyClupeidae
    - GenusHarengula
      - SpeciesHarengula humeralis

Synonyms

Harengula callolepis Goode, 1879
Harengula sardina Poey, 1860
Clupea humeralis Cuvier, 1829
Harengula maculosa Valenciennes, 1847
Alosa apicalis Müller & Troschel, 1848

Source: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. FishBase. Harengula humeralis (Cuvier, 1829)

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Harengula humeralis

Commercial designations

Main production methods

Main fishing gears

Seines

Habitat

FAO major fishing areas

Area 31 - Atlantic, Western Central

Area 41 - Atlantic, Southwest