Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847
Rainbow sardine
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei (teleosts) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Dussumieriidae (Round herrings)
Etymology: Dussumieria: In honor of Dussumier, a collaborator of Cuvier, who sent him collections of fishes from the Indian Ocean (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792–1883) was a French merchant, collector, traveller and ship owner. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Valenciennes.
Etymology: Dussumieria: In honor of Dussumier, a collaborator of Cuvier, who sent him collections of fishes from the Indian Ocean (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792–1883) was a French merchant, collector, traveller and ship owner. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Valenciennes.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Marine; freshwater; brackish; pelagic-neritic; depth range 10 - 20 m (Ref. 12260). Subtropical; 31°N - 7°S, 49°E - 126°E (Ref. 54426)
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Indo-West Pacific; Persian Gulf, north to Taiwan up to Singapore.
Size / Weight / Age
Mainly a pelagic inshore species (Ref. 68964). Earlier studies on the habitat and biology may have equally referred to D. elopsoides which this species closely resembles. Can also be caught with ringnets and dipnets. Occurrence reportedly reaches inland (Ref. 94476).
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Main reference
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Hata, H., S. Lavoué and H. Motomura, 2020. Redescriptions of Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes 1847 and Dussumieria albulina (Fowler 1934), two valid species of rainbow sardines (Clupeiformes: Dussumieriidae). Ichthyological Research 68(1):126-138. (Ref. 127773)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 21 December 2020
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: highly commercial
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Estimates based on models
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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5020 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
| Bayesian length-weight | a=0.00813 (0.00609 - 0.01085), b=3.00 (2.92 - 3.08), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245). |
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Trophic level (Ref. 69278) |
3.4 ±0.45 se; based on food items. |
| Generation time | 1.5 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 1 growth studies. |
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Resilience (Ref. 120179) |
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=0.8-1.2; tmax=1). |
| Rate of population increase | Prior r = 1.19, 95% CL = 0.79 - 1.79, Based on 3 data-limited stock assessments. |
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Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (20 of 100). 🛈 |
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Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649) |
High to very high vulnerability (66 of 100). 🛈 |
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Price category (Ref. 80766) |
Low. |
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Nutrients (Ref. 124155) |
Calcium = 231 [130, 523] mg/100g; Iron = 1.41 [0.74, 2.77] mg/100g; Protein = 21.3 [19.7, 22.6] %; Omega3 = 0.319 [0.155, 0.647] g/100g; Selenium = 77.1 [29.6, 207.7] μg/100g; VitaminA = 5.97 [1.78, 20.81] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.93 [1.27, 2.87] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies. |