Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Alosa praestabilis DeKay, 1842 (synonym)

Clupea indigena Mitchill, 1814 (ambiguous synonym)

Clupea sapidissima Wilson, 1811 (synonym)

Common names:

Alaccia americana Italian

Alose canadienne French

American shad English

Alose savoureuse French

Amerikaanse elft Dutch

Amerikaanse meivis Dutch

Amerikanische Alse German

Amerikanischer Maifisch German

Amerikansk stamsild Danish

Sábalo americano Spanish

Sável americano Portuguese

американский шэд Russian

美洲西鯡 Mandarin Chinese

美洲西鲱 Mandarin Chinese

Allaccia americana Italian

Alosa amerykanska a. zlotosledz Polish

Alose French, German

Americka lojka Serbian

Amerikanische Finte German

Amerikankantasilli Finnish

Amerikansk shad Norwegian, Swedish

Atlantic shad English

Common shad English

Connecticut River shad English

Hering american Rumanian

Herring jack English

North River shad English

Placka chutná Czech

Potomac shad English

Sável-americano Portuguese

Shad Afrikaans, English, Swedish

Susquehanna shad English

Vit staksill Swedish

White shad English

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Clupeiformes

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Family Clupeidae

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Genus Alosa

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Distribution:

USA (contiguous states); St. Lawrence; Scotian Shelf; Russian Federation; Palearctic; Pacific, Northeast; Pacific, Northwest; Pacific, Eastern Central; Pacific Ocean; Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf; North America: Newfoundland (Ref. 1998), the St. Lawrence River, and Nova Scotia southward to central Florida. Due to introductions into the Sacramento and Columbia Rivers, this species is now found from Cook Inlet, Alaska (Ref. 1998) to Baja California; Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf; Nearctic; Mexico; Kamchatka; Europe - Inland waters; Gulf of Alaska; Canada; California Current; Atlantic, Western Central; Atlantic, Northwest; Atlantic Ocean; Asia - Inland waters; America, North - Inland waters; Alaska (USA)

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 24-Jul-1994

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:401f4acf-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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