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Tembang

Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849)

Status not recordedbony fish

The tembang (Sardinella gibbosa) is a species in the family Dorosomatidae, order Clupeiformes.

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Quick facts about the tembang

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the tembang live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the tembang as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Israel

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the tembang endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the tembang classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classTeleostei
  4. orderClupeiformes
  5. familyDorosomatidae
  6. genusSardinella
  7. SpeciesSardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849)

Synonyms Clupea gibbosa, Clupea immaculata, Fimbriclupea dactylolepis, Fimbriclupea dactyolepis, Harengula gibbosa, Sardinella dactylolepis, Sardinella taiwanensis, Sardinelola gibbosa, Sardinia immaculata, Spratella tembang

Other names and names in other languages (24)
  • Fringe-scaled pilchardEnglish
  • Fringed-scaled sardineEnglish
  • Gold-stripe sardineEnglish
  • Goldstripe sardineEnglish
  • Goldstripe sardinellaEnglish
  • AbedArabic
  • sardinka indopacifickáCzech
  • sardinela doradaSpanish
  • Sardin-e-pahloo-talaiiPersian
  • sardinelle doréeFrench
  • ナンカイサッパJapanese
  • ปลากุแลแถบทองThai
  • TuyoFilipino
  • 扁仔Chinese
  • رنكة مهدبة القشورArabic
  • سردين ذهبي الشريطArabic
  • سردين مهدب القشورArabic
  • سردينيلا ذهبي الشريطArabic
  • 扁鰮Chinese
  • 沙丁魚Chinese
  • 隆背小沙丁Chinese
  • 隆背小沙丁魚Chinese
  • 青鱗仔Chinese
  • 鰮仔Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the tembang

Other species in the same genus Sardinella.

Bang

Sardinella aurita

DorosomatidaeNo free photo yet

Sardine

Sardinella longiceps

DorosomatidaeNo free photo yet

Herring

Sardinella maderensis

DorosomatidaeNo free photo yet

Sardine

Sardinella albella

DorosomatidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the tembang an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the tembang as introduced in 1 country: Israel, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the tembang?

The tembang (Sardinella gibbosa) belongs to the family Dorosomatidae in the order Clupeiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Tembang (Sardinella gibbosa). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tembang

MLA

“Tembang (Sardinella gibbosa).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tembang.

BibTeX
@misc{tembang_2026,
  title = {Tembang (Sardinella gibbosa)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tembang},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}