Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 128

Clupea harengus Linnaeus, 1758

Occurrence: questionable

Maximum length: 45 cm SL

Water type: marine, brackish

Environment: benthopelagic

Depth range: 0-364 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2010)

Source: preserved

Distribution and remarks: distributed from northern Bay of Biscay to Iceland and southern Greenland, eastward to Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya, including the Baltic. It is also seen along southwestern Greenland and Labrador down to South Carolina. A sole record: MNHN 2011-1405 is a probable misidentification.