Accepted scientific name:

Synonym:

Common names:

Bunker English, German

Golf-Menhaden German

Gulf menhaden English

Gulf-menhaden Danish

Lacha escamada Spanish

Large scale menhaden English

Menhaden Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Menhaden écailleux French

Menhaden escamudo Portuguese

Menhaden messicana Italian

Mossbunker English

Shad Afrikaans, English, Swedish

Pogy English

мэнхеден большечешуйный Russian

大鱗油鯡 Mandarin Chinese

大鳞油鲱 Mandarin Chinese

Gulfmenhaden Swedish

Lacha escamuda Spanish

Largescale menhaden English

Large-scale menhaden English

Menhadem-escamudo Portuguese

Menhaden mexický Czech

Menhaden wielkoluski Polish

Moss bunker English

Placka menhaden Czech

Sardina lacha Spanish

Classification:

Distribution:

USA (contiguous states); Western Central Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico (Florida Bay, Gulf of Campeche, Mexico), but no certain records from Caribbean.; Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf; Mexico; Gulf of Mexico; Atlantic, Western Central; Atlantic Ocean

Additional data:

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Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 25-Jul-1994

Online resource:

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

CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:4058dac6-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009