#2354 · 🐟 fish
Atlantic Menhaden
🇳🇱 Atlantische menhaden ·Brevoortia tyrannus
📍 Jamestown, RI, USA
📍 Gloucester, MA, USA
📍 Portland, CT 06480, USA
📍 Vinalhaven, ME, USA
📍 Smithsville, NS B0W 3C0, Canada
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Alex Shure · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jose Nunez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Fran Veale · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Brian G. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Jamestown, RI, USA:© Alex Shure · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Gloucester, MA, USA:© Alex Shure · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Portland, CT 06480, USA:© Sean Werle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Vinalhaven, ME, USA:© Thomas Berger · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Smithsville, NS B0W 3C0, Canada:© roughlegged · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Atlantic menhaden ( Brevoortia tyrannus ) is a North American species of fish in the herring family, Clupeidae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,111 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Menhaden
- Nederlands
- Atlantische menhaden
- scientific name
- Brevoortia tyrannus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Clupeiformes
- family
- Alosidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,111
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51363, Wikidata Q756893, GBIF 5214544, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.