CLUPEIDAE Spratelloides delicatulus, 5.2 cm SL (from North Sulawesi, Indonesia; photo by Seishi Kimura) Spratelloides delicatulus (photo by Ukkrit Satapoomin) Spratelloides delicatulus (Bennett, 1832) Delicate Round Herring D 11-13; A 10-11 (usually 10); P1 11-13; P2 8; LGR 26-32; PDS 8-13; LR 35-41. Body elongated, cylindrical, belly rounded without prepelvic or postpelvic scutes. Maxilla toothless; premaxillae triangular; second (posterior) supramaxilla symmetrically shaped. Branchiostegal rays few (6-8). Scales cycloid with continuous vertical striae and smooth posterior margin. Color: body greenish without bright silver midlateral band. Size: maximum ca. 9 cm SL. Distribution: widely distributed in tropical Indo-Pacific from South Africa and the Red Sea to Society Is., north to southern Japan. Remarks: pelagic, inshore schooling fish.(Seishi Kimura)