Ramnogaster

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

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| taxon = Ramnogaster

| authority = Whitehead, 1965

| type_species = Clupea arcuata

| type_species_authority = Jenyns, 1842

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Ramnogaster is a small genus of sprats found only in South America. Two species are placed in this genus:

• Ramnogaster arcuata (Jenyns, 1842) (Jenyns's sprat)
• Ramnogaster melanostoma (C. H. Eigenmann, 1907) (Uruguay river sprat)