Sardina pilchardus

Taxonavigation

Familia: Clupeidae
Genera: Sardina
Species: Sardina pilchardus

Name

Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792)

On Official list of Specific Names in Zoology

• No types known.
• Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:20, but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639
• Type locality: Cornwall, England, northeastern Atlantic.

References

• Antipa, G. 1904. Die Clupeinen des westlichen Teiles des Schwarzen Meeres und der Donaumündungen. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 41(19): 299–303. BHL. Reference page. 
• Bräger, Z., Moritz, T., Tsikliras, A.C., Gonzalvo, J., Radulović, M. & Staszny, Á. 2016. Scale morphometry allows discrimination of European sardine Sardina pilchardus and round sardinella Sardinella aurita and among their local populations. Journal of Fish Biology, Article first published online: 29 JAN 2016.DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12907 Reference page. 
• Fricke, R. 1999. Annotated checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Germany, with remarks of their taxonomic identity. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 587: 1–67. PDF. Reference page. 
• Fricke, R. 2000. Invalid neotypes. Editorial Notes and News. Copeia 2000(2): 639–640. JSTOR hdl: 1448/230 [not seen] Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1966. Opinion 799: Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (Pisces): Added to the Official List as the name of the European Sardine. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 23(6): 277–278. PDF Reference page. 
• Walbaum, J.J. 1792. Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i–viii] + 1–723, Pls. 1–3. BHL Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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