Pliosteostoma lutipinnis, the yellowfin herring, is a longfin herring that is found along the coast of Central and South America from Mexico to Ecuador. It is the only species in its genus.

Pliosteostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Pristigasteridae
Genus:	Pliosteostoma Norman, 1923
Species:	P. lutipinnis
Binomial name
Pliosteostoma lutipinnis (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882)

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2011). "Pliosteostoma lutipinnis" in FishBase. June 2011 version.

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