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Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bonga shad; Bonga; Shad; Rasoir; Sardine; Malay sprat; Bonga-Hering; Quilucha)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ethmalosa fimbriata, the bonga shad or just bonga, is a shad, a clupeid fish, that occurs along the coasts and in brackish water of coastal lagoons, rivers and lakes of western Africa from Dakhla in Western Sahara to Lobito in Angola. It is usually around 25 cm long but the maximum length is 45 cm. It is the only member of its genus.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Catadromous

Prey / Diet

Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bonga shad)[2]
Globigerina bulloides[3]
Sarotherodon melanotheron (blackchin tilapia)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Callitetrarhynchus gracilis[7]
Parahemiurus merus[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, 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
2Comparative analysis of trophic structure and interactions of two tropical lagoons, M.C. Villanueva, P. Lalèyè, J.-J. Albaret, R. Laë, L. Tito de Morais and J. Moreau, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 197, Issues 3-4 , 25 August 2006, P. 461-477
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
4Food niche segregation between the Malachite Kingfisher, Alcedo cristata, and the Pied Kingfisher, Ceryle rudis, at Lake Nokoué, Bénin, Roland Libois and Arnaud Laudelout, Ostrich 2004, 75(1&2): 32–38
5Lawson, E.O. and A.U. Olagundoye, 2011. Growth patterns, diet composition and sex ratios in giant african threadfin, Polydactylus quadrifilis from ologe lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria. Int. J. Agric. Biol., 13: 559–564
6Distribution, Status, and Biology of the Atlantic Humpback Dolphin, Sousa teuszii (Kükenthal, 1892), Koen Van Waerebeek, Linda Barnett, Almamy Camara, Anna Cham, Mamadou Diallo, Abdoulaye Djiba, Alpha O. Jallow, Edouard Ndiaye, Abdellahi O. Samba Ould Bilal, and Idrissa L. Bamy, Aquatic Mammals 2004, 30(1), 56-83
7Gibson, 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