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GBIF·2413324speciesAnimalia110 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderClupeiformes
  4. ›familyPristigasteridae
  5. ›genusNeoopisthopterus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Tropical longfin herring

Neoopisthopterus tropicus (Hildebrand, 1946)

Also calledArenquilla tropical (spa) · Menhaden plat (fra) · Pelada (spa) · Poisson-papier tropical (fra) · Sardina chata (spa) · Sardina tropical (spa) · sardinela pelada (spa) · sledice tropická (ces) · Тропическая пелада (rus)

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Neoopisthopterus tropicus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2413324.