Sardine
- Description. Clupeidae, the family of fish to which the sardines belong, is a primarily marine .
- Classification.
- Sardine in popular culture. Sardines are typically tightly packed in a small, flat can, .
- Sarine any of certain food fishes of the Herring family, Clupeidae, especially members of the genera Sardina, Sardinops, and Sardinella; the name sardine can also refer to the common herring (Clupea harengus) and to other small herrings or herring like fishes when canned in oil. The European Sardine (Sardina, or Clupea pilchardus)—known as pilchard in Britain—occurs in the Mediterrean Sea and off the Atlantic coasts of Spain, Portugal, France, and Britain. Clupea harengus is found throughout the North Atlantic, including coastal North America. The five recognized species of the genus Sardinops are so similar that they are sometimes classified as the single species S. sagax.
