Species: Harengula humeralis, Redear herring

Harengula humeralis (Cuvier, 1829)

Redear herring

Body fusiform, moderately compressed; upper and lower body profiles both convex; mouth at front, lower jaw a little projecting; no notch at center front of top jaws; top jaw with 3 toothed bones; tooth plates on and behind tongue narrow (width = 10% of their combined length); rear margin of gill opening with two fleshy lobes; lower gill rakers usually 27-31; operculum smooth without bony striae; dorsal fine slightly before middle of body, no elongate filament; anal fin base short (15-19 rays), origin well behind dorsal fin; pelvics 7 branched rays, insert closer to insertion of pectoral fin base than to origin of anal fin; a forked tail fin; row of 25-29 keeled scutes (bony scales) along belly; scales thin, loose, easily lost.