Brevoortia
Genus of fishes
title: "Brevoortia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["brevoortia", "commercial-fish", "marine-fish-genera", "taxa-named-by-theodore-gill"] description: "Genus of fishes" topic_path: "general/brevoortia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevoortia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of fishes ::
| image = Brevoortia tyrannus1.jpg | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = Atlantic menhaden | taxon = Brevoortia | authority = Gill, 1861 | type_species = Clupea menhaden | type_species_authority = Mitchill, 1814
The genus Brevoortia are all species of menhaden, there are found mainly in western Atlantic and consist of the following species:
- Brevoortia aurea (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (Brazilian menhaden)
- Brevoortia gunteri Hildebrand, 1948 (Finescale menhaden)
- Brevoortia patronus Goode, 1878 (Gulf menhaden)
- Brevoortia pectinata (Jenyns, 1842) (Argentine menhaden)
- Brevoortia smithi Hildebrand, 1941 (Yellowfin menhaden)
- Brevoortia tyrannus (Latrobe, 1802) (Atlantic menhaden)
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