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Japanese Sardinella
Sardinella zunasi
Sardinella zunasi (Japanese sardinella or Japanese scaled sardine) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Clupeidae, the herrings and sardines. It is native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs near shore along the Asian coastlines from southern Japan to Taiwan.
This fish is usually around 10 centimeters long at maturity. It is usually slender, but its body shape is somewhat variable.
From the article Sardinella zunasi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
At the table
This is a commercially important fish in Japan and China. It has been heavily fished and is considered an overexploited resource. It is also commonly found in fishery bycatch. In Japan, it is known as sappa or mamakari and in Korea as baendaeng'i (밴댕이).
== References ==
Wikipedia: “As food”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 611808.