Sardina pilchardus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Clupeoidei
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Clupei Superordo: Clupeomorpha Ordo: Clupeiformes Subordo: Clupeoidei

Familia: Clupeidae
Genera: Sardina
Species: Sardina pilchardus

Name

Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792)

On Official list of Specific Names in Zoology

No types known.
Neotype designated by Fricke 1999:20, but withdrawn in Fricke 2000:639
Type locality: Cornwall, England, northeastern Atlantic.

Synonyms

Clupea harengus var. pilchardus Walbaum, 1792
Clupea pilchardus Bloch, 1795 [Apparently described independently of Walbaum, 1792, but similarly based on Artedi in part]
Clupanodon sardina Risso, 1827
Clupea laticosta Lowe, 1843
?Sardina dobrogica Antipa, 1904 [note: In Opinion 799 type is given as by monotypy, but it is stated in Antipa's description (p. 302) that Sardina dobrogica differs from Sardina pilchardus...]

References

Antipa, G. 1904. Die Clupeinen des westlichen Teiles des Schwarzen Meeres und der Donaumündungen. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 41(19): 299–303. BHL. Reference page.
Bräger, Z., Moritz, T., Tsikliras, A.C., Gonzalvo, J., Radulović, M. & Staszny, Á. 2016. Scale morphometry allows discrimination of European sardine Sardina pilchardus and round sardinella Sardinella aurita and among their local populations. Journal of Fish Biology, Article first published online: 29 JAN 2016.DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12907 Reference page.
Fricke, R. 1999. Annotated checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Germany, with remarks of their taxonomic identity. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 587: 1–67. PDF. Reference page.
Fricke, R. 2000. Invalid neotypes. Editorial Notes and News. Copeia 2000(2): 639–640. JSTOR hdl: 1448/230 [not seen] Reference page.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1966. Opinion 799: Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (Pisces): Added to the Official List as the name of the European Sardine. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 23(6): 277–278. PDF Reference page.
Walbaum, J.J. 1792. Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum classibus, ordinibus, generum characteribus, specierum differentiis, observationibus plurimis. Redactis speciebus 242 ad genera 52. Ichthyologiae pars III. Ant. Ferdin. Rose, Grypeswaldiae [Greifswald]. Part 3: [i–viii] + 1–723, Pls. 1–3. BHL Reference page.

Links

Sardina pilchardus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Sardina pilchardus in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Sardina pilchardus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

беларуская: Сардзіны
Ελληνικά: Σαρδέλα
English: European Pilchard
français: Sardine
galego: Sardiña
magyar: Szardínia
ไทย: ปลาซาร์ดีน
vèneto: Sardèla