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Slender sprat

Silver-stripe round herring
XRF-Spratelloides gracilis.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae
Genus: Spratelloides
Species: S. gracilis
Binomial name
Spratelloides gracilis
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)

The silver-stripe round herring or slender sprat (Spratelloides gracilis) is a small herring-like forage fish.

They are small fish used as fishing bait, especially in skipjack tuna-fishing. It is valued as food in Japan, where it is known as kibinago. These can be eaten raw, as sashimi, or cooked, as whitebait.

Sashimi of kibinago (silver-stripe round herring)

Kibinago sashimi with chopsticks

Grilled kibinago


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