Sprattus

Sprattus
	European sprat, Sprattus sprattus sprattus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Clupeidae
Genus:	Sprattus; Girgensohn, 1846
Type species
	Sprattus haleciformis; Girgensohn, 1846
Synonyms
	Antu de Buen, 1958 ; Maugeclupea Whitley, 1932 ; Meletta Valenciennes, 1847 ; Spratella Valenciennes, 1847 ;

Sprattus is a genus of small oily fish of the family Clupeidae. They are more usually known by their common name, sprats. There are five species in the genus.

Species

Sprattus antipodum (Hector, 1872) (New Zealand blueback sprat)
Sprattus fuegensis (Jenyns, 1842) (Fueguian sprat)
Sprattus muelleri (Klunzinger, 1879) (New Zealand sprat)
Sprattus novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1847) (Australian sprat)
Sprattus sprattus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European sprat)
- The most common species of sprat discussed in research is Sprattus sprattus, mostly because of its prevalence in the Baltic Sea.

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Sprattus". FishBase. March 2006 version.
Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8