Like other sardines the slender rainbow sardine is caught both as a bait fish and for human consumption.

Shape: The slender rainbow sardine has an elongated body, with round belly and a pointed nose.

The slender rainbow sardine swims in schools and while pelagic it is generally found near shores.

The slender rainbow sardine spawns mainly in spring.

Dussumieria, the rainbow sardines, is a genus of fishes in the round herring family Dussumieriidae.

The slender rainbow sardine found its way into the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.

Dussumieria acuta (Rainbow sardine)

Dussumieria elopsoides (Slender rainbow sardine)

The Rainbow Sardine (Dussumieria acuta) is a bony fish important to aquaculture and commercial fisheries.

There is some indication that the slender rainbow sardine may tend to have more vertebra than the rainbow sardine.

Until the 1980s in the eastern Mediterranean slender rainbow sardines were frequently confused with the rainbow sardine (Dussumieria acuta).

The color of the rainbow sardine is iridescent blue with a shiny gold or brass line below, which quickly fades after death; the hind margin of the tail is broadly dark.

The Slender rainbow sardine (Dussumieria elopsoides) is a small, subtropical, salt water fish of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea which was first described by Bleeker in 1849.

The slender rainbow sardine is primarily differentiated from the rainbow sardine, because the slender rainbow sardines do not have tiny radiating striae on the posterior part of their scales.

Mainly an inshore species, the rainbow sardine can be found in Indo-Pacific regions such as the Persian Gulf (and perhaps south to Somalia), Pakistan, India and Malaysia to Indonesia (Kalimantan) and the Philippines.

Originally restricted to the tropical and subtropical portions of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, the slender rainbow sardine is found off shores from Taiwan and the Philippines, to northern Australia, to east Africa, Madagascar and into the Red Sea.

Resembles the Trout The northwestern smelt, also known as the rainbow herring, spans 6 to 8 inches and has very small bones.

Salmon, whitefish, vendace, grayling, rainbow herring, pike, burbot, bull trout, and loach are common in its waters.

The Rainbow Sardine (Dussumieria acuta) is a bony fish important to aquaculture and commercial fisheries.

Until the 1980s in the eastern Mediterranean slender rainbow sardines were frequently confused with the rainbow sardine (Dussumieria acuta).