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Gudusia chapra (Indian river shad; Ganges shad)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Gudusia chapra, or the Indian river shad, is a species of fish in the Clupeidae family, occurring in rivers of India and Bangladesh draining to the Bay of Bengal (e.g. the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Mahanadi River), and also reported from Pakistan and Nepal. Outside the rivers it also occurs in ponds, beels, ditches and inundated fields.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Predators

Harpadon nehereus (Bombay duck)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bicotyle lucknowensis[3]

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
♦ 2The Food and Feeding Habits of the Bombay Duck, Harpodon nehereus (Ham.) in the River Matlah (Bengal), T. V. R. Pillay, Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, no. 19, p. 427-435 (1953)
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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