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Sprat
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SPRAT, a marine fish (Clupea sprattus), named `` garvie " in Scotland, one of the smallest species of the genus Clupea or herrings, rarely exceeds 5 in.
Sprat
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see herring.
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Herring - common name for members of the large, widely distributed family Clupeidae, comprising many species of marine and fresh-water food fishes, ...
Spratt, David M.J. "Operation Curiesue: A Conservation Programme for the Aldabra Giant Tortoise in the Republic of Seychelles." Int. Zoo Yb., Vol. 28, 1989, pp. 66-69.
Epibenthic schooling by the larvae of the spratellodine clupeid Spratelloides gracilis
Epifauna of mangroves and sediments
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An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings Part 1 - Chirocentridae
Whitehead, P.J.P. (1985). FAO species catalogue. Vol. 7.
Atlantic herring have an elongated body that is fairly slender, a belly that is rounded (compared with that of a sprat, Sprattus sprattus), they also have no adipose fin this feature distinguishes herrings from the Family of salmon.
Common Murre: Feeds on polar cod, capelin, sprat, sand eels, small Atlantic cod, and herring; also eats marine worms, amphipods, shrimp, and mollusks.
Pilchards, shrimps, sprats, small squid are some of the catch. The parents do not come home every night but when the chick, which may have been on its own for up to ten nights, is ultimately fed by regurgitation, its intake is tremendous.
Clark, P., P. Holz, D. Spratt. 2005. Hepatozoon tachyglossi sp nov (Haemogregarinidae), a protozoan parasite from the blood of a short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 129: 49-52.
Food consists of small or medium sized fish, including cod, herring, sprat, sculpins, and occasionally crustaceans, mollusks, frogs, fish spawn and insects. Prey is usually caught underwater and is usually swallowed before surfacing.
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Fish such as sandeels, sprats and whiting.
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More recently, guillemots have suffered from overfishing of sand eels and sprats by humans. Conservationists would like to see this controlled because it is believed to be causing hundreds of birds to starve.
Minke whales feed on krill; fish, including sand lace, sand eel, salmon, capelin, mackerel, cod, coal fish, whiting, sprat, wolffish, dogfish, pollack, haddock, and herring; and squid. Capelin are the dominant food item of North Atlantic minkes.
It is the largest living fish, growing up to 65 feet long, but feeds on the smallest of sea creatures-namely, zooplankton, small squid, jellyfish, and sprat plankton.
The Manx Shearwater feeds on small fish (particularly herring, sprat and sardines), crustaceans, cephalopods and surface offal.
It is also sometimes called "herring" or "sprat" in New Zealand. (So-called "common names" are very confusing!) It is often found in tidal flats and shoals in large numbers, and feeds on small animals and plants.
Red-throated Diver, Little Loon, Cape Drake, Cape Race, Cape Racer, Cobble, Pegging-Owl Loon, Pepper-shinned Loon, Scape-Grace, Sprat Loon, Rain Goose
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Gaviidae - Loons (Divers) ...
 See also: Herring, Flamingo, Petrel, Sardine, Guillemot
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