Dussumieria

Dussumieria is the genus of rainbow sardines, a group within the round herring family Dussumieriidae. They are found in Indo-Pacific.

== Species == The following is a list of currently accepted living Dussumieria species: Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847 (Rainbow sardine) Dussumieria albulina Fowler, 1934 (Lancer rainbow sardine) Dussumieria apollo Hata, Lavoué, Appleyard & Pogonoski, 2025 (Australian rainbow sardine) Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849 (Slender rainbow sardine) Dussumieria hasselti Bleeker, 1851 (Hasselt's rainbow sardine) Dussumieria modakandai Singh, Jayakumar, Kumar, Murali, Mishra, Singh & Lal, 2022 (Soft rainbow sardine) Dussumieria productissima Chabanaud, 1933 (Javelin rainbow sardine) Dussumieria torpedo Hata, Lavoué & Motomura, 2021 (African rainbow sardine) 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.