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Alosa immaculata (Pontic shad; Kerch shad; Kerch black sea shad; Black Sea shad; Black Sea herring)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Pontic shad (Alosa immaculata, previously Alosa pontica), also referred to as the Black sea shad or Kerch shad, is a species of clupeid fish in the genus Alosa, native to the Black Sea and Sea of Azov basins.
View Wikipedia Record: Alosa immaculata

Infraspecies

Alosa pontica var. pontica
Caspialosa pontica pontica

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Alosa immaculata

Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Female Maturity [2]  2 years
Male Maturity [4]  2 years
Maximum Longevity [2]  7 years
Migration [3]  Anadromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik Ia 167827 Astrakhan, Russia
Khazar Zapovednik State Nature Reserve Ia 658105 Turkmenistan  
Mandra - Poda 15162 Bulgaria  
Reserve Srebarna Managed Reserve IV 2294 Bulgaria  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gyrodactylus nov <Unverified Name>[5]
Mazocraes alosae[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Grenouillet, G. & Schmidt-Kloiber., A.; 2006; Fish Indicator Database. Euro-limpacs project, Workpackage 7 - Indicators of ecosystem health, Task 4, www.freshwaterecology.info, version 5.0 (accessed on July 3, 2012).
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0