Dussumieria Explained

Dussumieria is the genus of rainbow sardines, a group within the round herring family Dussumieriidae. They are found in Indo-Pacific.

Species

• Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847 (Rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849 (Slender rainbow sardine)
• Dussumieria modakandai Mahender Singh, Thazhathe K. Teena Jayakumar, Thipramalai Thangappan A. Kumar, Sanjeev Murali, Akhilesh Mishra, Achal Singh and Kuldeep K. Lal. 2022^[1]

The earliest known fossil species is D. elami Arambourg, 1967 from the ?Late Eocene of Iran (Pabdeh Formation) and potentially the Early Oligocene of Romania.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Mahender Singh, Thazhathe K. Teena Jayakumar, Thipramalai Thangappan A. Kumar, Sanjeev Murali, Akhilesh Mishra, Achal Singh and Kuldeep K. Lal. 2022. Integrative Taxonomy–based Discovery of Dussumieria modakandai sp. nov. from India. Journal of Fish Biology. 100(1); 268-278. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14943
2. Book: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France) . Notes et mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient . naturelle (France) . Muséum national d'histoire . 1966 . Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . t.8 (1966) . Paris.
3. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-12-04 . paleobiodb.org.