''Clupeonella'' is a genus of

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in the family

Ehiravidae Ehiravidae is a family of clupeiform fishes. It is now recognized by FishBase as a family in its own right; it had been considered to be a subfamily of Clupeidae. It contains eleven extant Extant or Least-concern species, least concern is th ...

. They are widespread in the

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and

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s of the

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and

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drainages.

Species

* '' Clupeonella abrau'' (Maliatsky, 1930) (Abrau sprat) * '' Clupeonella caspia'' Svetovidov, 1941 (Caspian tyulka) * '' Clupeonella cultriventris'' (

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, 1840) (Black Sea sprat) * ''

Clupeonella engrauliformis Anchovy sprat, ''Clupeonella engrauliformis'', is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae. It is one of several species of '' Clupeonella'' found in the Central and Southern Caspian Sea. It lives pelagically in the central and southern parts o ...

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, 1904) (Anchovy sprat) * '' Clupeonella grimmi'' Kessler, 1877 (Southern Caspian sprat) * '' Clupeonella muhlisi''

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, 1934 * '' Clupeonella tscharchalensis'' (

, 1896) (Freshwater tyulka)

Sources

* Ehiravidae Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Karl Kessler Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Clupeiformes-stub