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Alosa caspia (Caspian shad)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Alosa caspia is a species of clupeid fish, one of the species of shad (genus Alosa) endemic to the Caspian Sea basin. FishBase treats separately three subspecies from the Caspian: \n* Caspian shad, Alosa caspia caspia (Eichwald, 1838) \n* Enzeli shad, Alosa caspia knipowitschi (Iljin, 1927) \n* Astrabad shad, Alosa caspia persica (Iljin, 1927)
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Infraspecies

Caspialosa caspia var. caspia

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  65 grams
Maximum Longevity [3]  7 years
Migration [2]  Anadromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Astrakhanskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik Ia 167827 Astrakhan, Russia
Karadagskiy Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik 13876 Ukraine  
Khazar Zapovednik State Nature Reserve Ia 658105 Turkmenistan  

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anisakis schupakovi[4]
Bunocotyle cingulata[4]
Hysterothylacium aduncum[4]
Mazocraes alosae[4]
Pronoprymna petrowi[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de 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
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, 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.
♦ 4Gibson, 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