Yes. Sardine (sardine) Family: Herring, also known as "sardines", is a collective name for a number of

herring

with a laterally compressed, usually silvery-white body. It is a collective name for the genera

Sardine,

Small Sardine

, and Anopheles

of the order

Scleractinia

Herreroidea

. It is one of the world's most important

marine economic fishes

. There is only one species of sardine in the genus Sardina, which is divided into two subspecies, the European sardine and the

Mediterranean

sardine. There are 5 species in the genus Sardinella***, namely

Far Eastern Sardinella

, California Sardinella,

South American Sardinella

, Australian Sardinella, and South African Sardinella. The small sardine genus is the most diverse, with more than 20 species. Chinese sardines are mainly about 10 species of the genus Lesser Sardine, with

Golden Lesser Sardine

and

Jow's Lesser Sardine

being the most productive. The sardine has an extended, laterally flattened body.

Abdomen

with

prismatic scales

, body covered with

rounded scales

, and no lateral lines.