Tenualosa reevesii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Clupeiformes |
Family: | Dorosomatidae |
Genus: | Tenualosa |
Species: | T. reevesii |
Binomial name | |
Tenualosa reevesii John Richardson, 1846 | |
Tenualosa reevesii, also known as Reeve's shad, is a species of fish belonging to the family Dorosomatidae. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Tenualosa reevesii was first described by John Richardson in 1846. Tenualosa reevesii belongs to the genus Tenualosa. It can attain a maximum length of 61.6 cm (24.3 in) and a maximum weight of 5 kg (11 lb) and lives up to 8 years.
It is an euryhaline schooling fish, meaning it can survive freshwater, brackish and marine conditions and is pelagic-neritic, also is migratory and is anadromous and lives in tropical climate(31°N-5°N, 95°E-123°E) being found in waters off the coast of china up to the island of Phuket in the Andaman sea that lives between 0–50 m depth. [1]
Mature adult Tenualosa reevesii ascend back to rivers to breed.
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