See text Dussumieria is the genus of rainbow sardines, a group within the round herring family Dussumieriidae.

They are found in Indo-Pacific.

[1] The earliest known fossil species is D. elami Arambourg, 1967 from the ?Late Eocene of Iran (Pabdeh Formation) and potentially the Early Oligocene of Romania.

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