Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822)

Freyhof, Jörg, Kaya, Cüneyt & Ali, Atheer, 2021, A Critical Checklist of the Inland Fishes Native to the Euphrates and Tigris Drainages, Aquatic Ecology Series, Switzerland: Springer Nature, pp. 815-854 : 818

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57570-0_35

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15112062

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A78795-FFB5-DC06-FF01-2584FF762BCA

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scientific name

Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822)
status

 

Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) View in CoL

Distribution in the area. Not endemic. Only anadromous species in the area. Enters the Shatt Al-Arab to spawn upriver in the Tigris and Euphrates. In the Tigris, it migrated as far north as Qal’ at Salih and into the East Al-Hammar marshes, as well as in the Euphrates as far north as Yaou ( Coad 2010). Also known from the Karun drainage.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Clupeiformes

Family

Clupeidae

Genus

Tenualosa

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