Taxon Description (Wikipedia)
| image = Alosa fallax.jpg
| image_caption = Twaite shad,
Alosa fallax
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Actinopterygii
| ordo = Clupeiformes
| familia = Clupeidae
| subfamilia = Alosinae
| genus =
Alosa
| genus_authority = Linck, 1790
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = About 15-20, see text.
| synonyms =
Caspialosa
Pomolobus
}}
The
shads or
river herrings comprise the genus
Alosa, fish related to herring in the family Clupeidae. They are distinct from others in that family by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers. The several species frequent different areas on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. The shad fry live for a year or two in fresh...
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