Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Thryssa purava (Hamilton, 1822) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Clupea purava Hamilton, 1822 (synonym)

Engraulis annandalei Chaudhuri, 1916 (synonym)

Engraulis kempi Chaudhuri, 1916 (synonym)

Engraulis purava (Hamilton, 1822) (synonym)

Engraulis rambhae Chaudhuri, 1916 (synonym)

Thrissa purava (Hamilton, 1822) (synonym)

Thryssa megastoma Swainson, 1839 (synonym)

Common names:

oblique-jawed thryssa English

斜頜棱鯷 Mandarin Chinese

斜颌棱鳀 Mandarin Chinese

Anchovy English

Cheru-manangu Malayalam

Engallu Kannada, Telugu

Hamilton's thryssa English

Kava-chella Malayalam

Kava-pala Malayalam

Khavli Kannada, Marathi

Kuthavoo Malayalam

Longjaw thryssa English

Manangu Kannada, Malayalam

Monangu Kannada

Mullanmanangu Malayalam

Nedum poruva Tamil

Nedumanangu Malayalam

Nedum-poruva Tamil, Telugu

Oblique-jaw thryssa English

Peddah-poorawah Telugu

Phansha Bengali

Poravalu Telugu

Poruva Tamil

Pussai Oriya

Sardel purava Czech

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

LSID

Order Clupeiformes

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Family Engraulidae

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Genus Thryssa

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Distribution:

Sri Lanka; Pakistan; Myanmar; Malaysia; Indian Ocean: eastern coasts of India; possibly also Myanmar.; Indian Ocean, Western; Indian Ocean, Eastern; Indian Ocean; India; Chilka Lake; Bay of Bengal; Bangladesh

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 13-Jul-1994

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:401efd92-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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