- Sprattus Girgensohn, O.G.L. 1846. Anatomie und physiologie des Fisch-nervensystems. Mémoires Préséntés à l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg par divers Savants et dans ses Assemblées 5: 275-589 pls 1-15 [534].
Type species:
Sprattus haleciformis Girgensohn, 1846 by monotypy (= Clupea sprattus Linnaeus, 1758).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Western South Atlantic, eastern tropical Atlantic and New Zealand.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Lower E coast
- South Australia: Bass Strait
- Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait, SE coastal
History of changes
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- Meletta novaehollandiae Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 20 472 pp. pls 591-606. [376] [as Meletta novae-hollandiae].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP A.9312, Port Jackson, NSW. - Clupea (Pomolobus) bassensis McCulloch, A.R. 1911. Report on the fishes obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Part 1. Zoological (Biological) Results. Endeavour 1(1): 1-87 figs 1-20 pls 1-16 [16, pl. 4(2)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM E.6496, off Flinders Island and off Storm Bay, TAS; AM I.10382–3, off Flinders Island and off Storm Bay, TAS.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Whitehead, P.J.P. & Bauchot, M.L. 1985. Catalogue critique des types de poissons du Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, (Suite) Ordre des Clupéiforms (Familles des Clupeidae, Engraulididae et Denticipitidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 7(4 Suppl.): 1-77 [48]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Port Jackson, NSW (33º50´S) to SA; temperate.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Lower E coast
- South Australia: Bass Strait
- Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
- Victoria: Bass Strait
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, estuary, inshore, pelagic.
General References
Gomon, M.F. 1994. Families Halosauridae, Notacanthidae, Clupeidae, Engraulidae, Gonorynchidae, Plotosidae, Salmonidae. pp. 215-231 figs 192-206 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [225]
Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [172] (as Clupea bassensis)
McCulloch, A.R. 1930. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5(1–4): 1-534 [38] (as Clupea (Pomolobus) bassensis)
Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [24] (166, as Clupea bassensis)
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [34] (182)
Common Name References
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Whitehead, P.J.P. 1985. FAO species catalog. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeoidei). Part 1 — Chirocentridae, Clupeidae and Pristigasteridae. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 7 Pt 1. 1–303 pp. [48], FAO) (Australian Sprat)
History of changes
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| 27-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |