Jenkinsia

Genus of fishes

Jenkinsia

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Clupeiformes
Family:  | Spratelloididae
Genus:  | Jenkinsia
D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Jenkinsia are seen in Puerto Rico in 2005.

Jenkinsia is a genus of round herring in the family Spratelloididae. They are found in the central western Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Four recognized species are placed in this genus.

## Species

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* Jenkinsia lamprotaenia (P. H. Gosse, 1851) (dwarf round herring)
* Jenkinsia majua Whitehead, 1963 (little-eye round herring)
* Jenkinsia parvula Cervigón & Velazquez, 1978 (short-striped round herring)
* Jenkinsia stolifera (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1884) (Florida round herring)

## References

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* Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Jenkinsia in FishBase. June 2011 version.

Taxon identifiers

Jenkinsia|

* Wikidata: Q938266
* BOLD: 24563
* CoL: 56HZ
* GBIF: 2413327
* iNaturalist: 89183
* ITIS: 161758
* NCBI: 221865
* Open Tree of Life: 481634
* WoRMS: 269531

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