Sardinops

Forty-two percent of the diet of the black-footed penguin is small shoaling fish, with 25 species of fish, including anchovies (Engraulis capensis) and sardines (Sardinops sagax) being recorded, as well as 18 species of crustaceans, three species of squid, and one species of polychaete worm.

Black-footed penguin 2010

Coupling of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax caeruleus) life cycle with the Gulf of California pelagic environment.

Gulf of California large marine ecosystem 2008

Like the anchovy, the sardine (genus Sardinops or Sardinella) is a key link in the local trophic system (Bakun, 1993).

Patagonian Shelf large marine ecosystem 2008

Comparison of the food and the filtering mechanism of pilchard (Sardinops ocellata) and anchovy (Engraulis capensis) off South West Africa, 1971-1972.

Benguela Current large marine ecosystem 2008

Sinopsis de datos biologicos y pesqueros de la sardina Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842) en el Pacifico suroriental.

Humboldt Current large marine ecosystem 2008

(Sardinops sagax caeruleus) life cycle with the Gulf of California pelagic environment.

California Current large marine ecosystem 2008

According to my fishmonger, the fresh sardines I ate for lunch today were Pacific sardines, Sardinops sagax.

Do sardines exist? 2006

I think they are probably the Sardinops sagax, aka the Pacific Sardine.

Do sardines exist? 2006

While the local Sardinops sagax are excellent, the Sardina pilchardus that are available throughout the Iberian peninsula and France deserve special recognition as the "true sardine."

Do sardines exist? 2006

Sardinops and Africana, the polar supply vessel SA Agulhas, and the fisheries research ship Algoa.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006