Pellona harroweri, called the American coastal pellona and the caille, is a species of longfin herring native to the beaches and estuaries of the western Atlantic from Panama to southern Brazil.

[1] Some individuals can reach 18 cm, with the average closer to 12 cm.

[1] They school in very shallow waters, and are rarely found deeper than 16 m. The species is considered a forage fish, used for bait for commercial fish and consumed by humans on a subsistence level.

[2] They are eaten by the Costero dolphin, and by the La Plata dolphin.

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