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title: "Śledź pacyficzny"
description: "Clupea pallasii — Ryby. The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/pacific-herring
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Śledź pacyficzny

> Clupea pallasii — Ryby. The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia.

- Scientific name: *Clupea pallasii*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 2611
- Wikidata: [Q1510347](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1510347)
- iNaturalist taxon: [117571](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/117571)

## Names

- en: Pacific Herring
- de: Pazifischer Hering
- es: Arenque del Pacífico
- fr: Hareng du Pacifique
- pt: Arenque-do-pacífico
- pl: Śledź pacyficzny

## Countries with the most observations

CA (1349), US (809), RU (21)

## Summary

The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin. The distribution is widely along the California coast from Baja California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea; in Asia, the distribution is south to Japan, Korea, and China. Clupea pallasii is considered a keystone species because of its very high productivity and interactions with many predators and prey. Pacific herring spawn in variable seasons, but often in the early part of the year in…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_herring

## Photo

![Śledź pacyficzny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-herring/medium.jpg)

Photo: Irene · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133999073

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-herring?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).