Scientific Name	Amblygaster sirm   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	(Walbaum, 1792)	Depth	10 - 75M
Chinese	西姆鈍腹鯡	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鯡科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F097　Clupeidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	斑點鈍腹鯡
Max Length	27 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	鰮仔、沙丁魚、苦瞭(臺東)、賽姆圓腹沙丁魚
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	East、West、South、North、PonFu
Habitats	Ocean、Coastal、Lagoon、Coral&Sand	Holotype Locality	Red Sea
Synonyms	Ambligaster sirm, Clupea harengus sirm, Clupea pinguis, Clupea sirm, Sardinella leiogastroides, Sardinella sirm, Sardinops dakini
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 張世義 編著 2001
Specimen List	ASIZP0070535. ASIZP0075097. ASIZP0076135. ASIZP0076136. ASIZP0805891. ASIZP0807053. ASIZP0807054. ASIZP0915891. ASIZP0917053. ASIZP0917054. FRIP00979. FRIP20225. FRIP21285. FRIP22130. FRIP22439. NTMP1457. NTUM00129. NTUM02014. NTUM06910. NTUM06970.
Barcode	2015-10-23,Chia-Hao Chang,CO1,% 2016-01-27,HAN-YANG,CO1,100% 2016-01-27,HAN-YANG,CO1,100%
Common Name	Northern pilchard; Spotted sardinella; Spotted pilchard
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body slender, subcylindrical lindrical, abdomen rather rounded with 16 to 18 (mostly 17) prepelvic and 13 to 15 (mostly 14) postpelvic scutes; scutes not prominent; pelvic scute with ascending arms. Upper jaw rounded without distinct median notch or cleft. Two supramaxillae present; second supramaxilla symmetrical. Opercle smooth, without bony striae. Lower gill rakers on first gill arch 33 to 43. Pelvic-fin insertion about equal with point between vertical through bases of sixth to tenth dorsal-fin rays. Body dorsum darkly coloured blue-green, flanks silvery; lower head gold, and usually with a lateral series of 10 to 20 dark bluish gold spots dorsaly and caudal fins dusky yellow and other fins pale.
habitats	A schooling species occurring in coastal waters and lagoons. Feeds mainly on copepods, nauplii and zoea larvae, larval bivalves and gastropods.
Distribution	Widespread in tropical Indo-West Pacific from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Indonesia, Gulf of Thailand, New Guinea, and the Philippines; north to Taiwan and Okinawa; south to New Guinea, the Arafura Sea, northern Australia, and Fiji..
Utility	Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted, boiled, or made into fish balls. Used as bait in the tuna fishery.