Ethmidium

Ethmidium is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, the herrings and sprats. The only species in the genus is Ethmidium maculatum, the Pacific menhaden, a species found along the Pacific coast of South America off Peru and Chile.

Ethmidium
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Clupeidae
Genus:	Ethmidium W. F. Thompson, 1916
Species:	E. maculatum
Binomial name
Ethmidium maculatum (Valenciennes, 1847)
Synonyms[2]
Alausa maculata Valenciennes, 1847 Brevoortia maculata (Valenciennes, 1847) Clupea maculata (Valenciennes, 1847) Alausa coerulea Valenciennes, 1847 Clupea notacanthus Günther, 1868 Clupea notacanthoides Steindachner, 1869 Ethmidium chilcae Hildebrand, 1946 Brevoortia maculata chilcae (Hildebrand, 1946)