Scientific Name	Sardinella melanura   Pronounce			by: Po-Feng Lee, Cheng-Yi Tsai
Author	(Cuvier, 1829)	Depth	0 - 50M
Chinese	黑尾小沙丁魚	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鯡科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F097　Clupeidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	黑尾小沙丁魚
Max Length	12.2 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	黑尾小沙丁、青鱗仔、鰮仔、沙丁魚、扁仔、扁鰮、黑尾鰮(澎湖)
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	East、West、South、North、North East、PonFu
Habitats	Ocean、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Vanikoro
Synonyms	Clupea commersonii, Clupea melanura, Clupea otaitensis, Clupeonia commersoni, Clupeonia commersonii, Clupeonia vittata, Harengula melanura, Harengula vanicoris, Harengula vittata, Herklotsichthys vittatus, Sardinella melaneura, Sardinella nigricaudata
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；中國動物誌-鱘形目；海鰱目；鯡形目及鼠鱚目(張, 2001)  Whitehead, P. J. P. 1985 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 Hiroyuki Motomura, Seishi Kimura etc. 2001 張世義 編著 2001
Specimen List	ASIZP0056977. ASIZP0059420. ASIZP0059876. ASIZP0065035. ASIZP0066576. ASIZP0066578. ASIZP0066660. ASIZP0070518. ASIZP0071264. ASIZP0072805. ASIZP0072806. ASIZP0072807. ASIZP0074728. ASIZP0078825. ASIZP0079224. ASIZP0079365. ASIZP0079374. ASIZP0079378. ASIZP0801778. ASIZP0801779. ASIZP0801780. ASIZP0805476. ASIZP0805477. ASIZP0805478. ASIZP0806464. ASIZP0911778. ASIZP0911779. ASIZP0911780. ASIZP0915476. ASIZP0915477. ASIZP0915478. ASIZP0916464. FRIP00190. MTP0159. NMMBP02605. NMMBP05370. NMMBP05378. ...List all 43 records...
Barcode	2014-10-30,Kwang-Tsao Shao,CO1,100% 2012-10-15,張家豪,CO1,100% 2012-10-15,張家豪,CO1,100% 2012-10-15,張家豪,CO1,100% 2015-11-01,Yu-Ming Shih,CO1,100% 2015-11-01,Yu-Ming Shih,CO1,100% 2015-11-01,Yu-Ming Shih,CO1,100% 2015-11-01,Yu-Ming Shih,CO1,100%
Common Name	Blacktipped sardine; Black-tipped sardine; Blacktip sardinella
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body fusiform, somewhat compressed, depth usually not much more than 30% of standard length; abdomen with sharply-keeled prepelvic and postpelvic scutes ; total number of scutes 27 to 31. Lower gill rakers on first gill arch 38 to 74. Pelvic fins with i unbranched and 7 branched soft rays. Vertical striae on scales discontinuous, with a wide gap at centre, without any perforations on posterior part of scale. Body dorsum blue-green, flanks silvery; no dark spot at dorsal-fin origin; tips of caudal fin jet black.
habitats	Forms schools in coastal waters. Feeds on small planktonic organisms.
Distribution	Indo-West Pacific from Gulf of Aden south to Madagascar and Mauritius, apparently not south of Bombay nor in northern Bay of Bengal, Indonesia, northward to Taiwan and eastward to Samoa. It is common in waters around Taiwan.
Utility	Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted, as bait, or made into fish meals. Regarded a robust and very good bait in the tuna fishery.