Sardinella lemuru és una espècie de peix de la família dels clupeids i de l'ordre dels clupeïformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 23 cm de llargària total.Whitehead, P.J.P. 1985. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeioidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. Part 1 - Chirocentridae, Clupeidae and Pristigasteridae. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/1):1-303. FishBase

Alimentació Menja fitoplàncton i zooplàncton, principalment copèpodes.

Hàbitat És un peix marí que es troba a àrees de clima tropical (38°N - 33°S, 97°E - 134°E) i a 15-100 m de fondària.Pauly, D., A. Cabanban i F.S.B. Torres, Jr. 1996. Fishery biology of 40 trawl-caught teleosts of western Indonesia. p. 135-216. A D. Pauly i P. Martosubroto (editors) Baseline studies of biodiversity: the fish resource of western Indonesia. ICLARM Studies and Reviews 23.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a província de Phuket (Tailàndia), les costes meridionals de Java i Bali,Ritterbush, S. 1975. An assessment of the population biology of the Bali Strait lemuru fishery. Mar. Fish. Res. Rep. (1):1-38.Kuiter, R.H. i T. Tonozuka 2001. Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 1. Eels- Snappers, Muraenidae - Lutjanidae. Zoonetics, Austràlia. 302 p.Ghofar, A. i C.P. Mathews 1995. The Bali Strait lemuru fishery. A D. Pauly i P. Martosubroto (editors) Baseline studies of biodiversity: the fish resources of western Indonesia. ICLARM Studies and Reviews 23.Dwiponggo, A. i J.C.B. Uktolseya 1972. A 'lemuru', Sardinella longiceps survey around the westernpart of the little Sunda Island. Marine Fisheries Research Institute. Jakarta.Dwiponggo, A., T. Hariati, S. Banon, M.L.D. Palomares i D. Pauly 1986. Growth, mortality and recruitment of commercially important fishes and penaeid shrimps in Indonesian waters. ICLARM Tech. Rep. 17, 91 p. Austràlia Occidental,Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. i P.J. Kailola 1984. Trawled fishes of southern Indonesia and northwestern Australia. Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Austràlia, Directorate General of Fishes, Indonèsia, i German Agency for Technical Cooperation, República Federal d'Alemanya. 407 p. el Mar de Java, Filipines,Lavapie-Gonzales, F., S.R. Ganaden i F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1997. Some population parameters of commercially important fishes in the Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Filipines. 114 p.Ingles, J. i D. Pauly 1984. An atlas of the growth, mortality and recruitment of Philippines fishes. ICLARM Tech. Rep. 13. 127 p. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Manila, Filipines.Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953. Check list of Philippine fishes. Res. Rep. U.S. Fish Wild. Serv., (20):977 p.Dalzell, P. i R.A. Ganaden 1987. A review of the fisheries for small pelagic fishes in Philippine waters. Tech. Pap. Ser. Bur. Fish. Aquat. Resour. (Philipp.) 10(1):58 p. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Quezon City, Filipines.Corpuz, A., J. Saeger i V. Sambilay 1985. Population parameters of commercially important fishes in Philippine waters. Tech. Rep. Univ. Philipp. Visayas, Dept. Mar. Fish. (6):99 p.Conlu, P.V. 1986. Guide to Philippine flora and fauna. Fishes. Vol. IX. Natural Resources Management Center, Quezon City. 495 p.Aprieto, V.L. i E.P. Villoso 1979. Catch composition and relative abundance of trawl-caught fishes in the Visayan Sea. Fish. Res. J. Philipp. 4(1):9-18. Hong Kong,Ni, I.-H. i K.-Y. Kwok 1999. Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters. Zool. Stud. 38(2):130-152.Herklots, G.A.C. i S.Y. Lin 1940. Common marine food-fishes of Hong Kong. Hong Kong University. 89 p. TaiwanKuo, S.-R. i K.-T. Shao 1999. Species composition of fish in the coastal zones of the Tsengwen estuary, with descriptions of five new records from Taiwan. Zool. Stud. 38(4):391-404.Shao, K.-T., J.-P. Chen, P.-H. Kao i C.-Y. Wu 1993. Fish fauna and their geographical distribution along the western coast of Taiwan. Acata Zoologica Taiwanica 4(2): 113-140. i el sud del Japó.

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