Dussumieria

Dussumieria Temporal range: Late Eocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
D. acuta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Dussumieriidae
Genus:	Dussumieria Valenciennes, 1847
Species
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Dussumieria is the genus of rainbow sardines, a group within the round herring family Dussumieriidae. They are found in Indo-Pacific. ^[1]

Species

The following is a list of currently accepted living Dussumieria species: ^[2]

• Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847 (Rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria albulina Fowler, 1934 (Lancer rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria apollo Hata,Lavoué, Appleyard & Pogonoski, 2025 (Australian rainbow sardine) ^[3]
• Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849 (Slender rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria hasselti Bleeker, 1851 (Hasselt's rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria modakandai Singh, Jayakumar, Kumar, Murali, Mishra, Singh & Lal, 2022 (Soft rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria productissima Chabanaud, 1933 (Javelin rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria torpedo Hata, Lavoué & Motomura, 2021 (African rainbow sardine)

The earliest known fossil species is D. elami Arambourg, 1967 from the ?Late Eocene of Iran (Pabdeh Formation) and potentially the Early Oligocene of Romania. ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Dussumieria". FishBase . August 2012 version.
2. "FishBase". www.fishbase.us. Retrieved 2025-02-15.
3. Hata, Harutaka; Lavoué, Sébastien; Appleyard, Sharon A.; Pogonoski, John J. (2025-02-05). "A New Species of Rainbow Sardine in the Genus Dussumieria (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Dussumieriidae) from New Guinea and Australia". Ichthyology & Herpetology. 113 (1). doi:10.1643/i2024023. ISSN   2766-1512.
4. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France); naturelle (France), Muséum national d'histoire (1966). Notes et mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient. Vol. t.8 (1966). Paris: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
5. "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-04.