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Surf Sardines
Iso
Iso is an Indo-Pacific genus of silversides, commonly called surf sardines, the only genus in the monogeneric family Isonidae, they were formerly classified in the family Notocheiridae alongside the surf silverside but they are now thought to be within the suborder Atherinoidei while the surf silverside is classified in the suborder Atherinopsoidei, along with the Neotropical silversides. It contains five species to date, the first of which was described in 1895.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species
Surf Sardine
speciesIso rhothophilus
Iso flosmaris
speciesIso flosmaris
Surf Sprite
speciesIso natalensis
Hawaiian Surf Sardine
speciesIso hawaiiensis
Samoan Surf Sardine
speciesIso nesiotes
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 89148.