Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Pristigasteridae > Ilisha > Ilisha elongata

Ilisha elongata (Elongate Ilisha; White herring; Slender shad; Herring; Chinese herring; Sardine; Shad; Ilisha; Ilisa)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ilisha elongata, called the elongate ilisha (the FAO name) or Chinese herring or slender shad (even though it is not a close relative of herrings and shads) (Chinese: 勒鱼; pinyin: lèyú, or simply 鳓, lè), is a species of longfin herring native to the coastal waters and estuaries of North Indian Ocean and Northwest Pacific. It is a relatively large species, up to 45–60 centimetres (18–24 in) in total length. It is an important fishery species.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve 123722 Viet Nam  
Shankou Mangrove Wetland Reserve 19768 Guangxi, China  
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Planiliza macrolepis (Mullet)[1]

Predators

Sousa chinensis (Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin)[2]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Sousa chinensis, Thomas A. Jefferson and Leszek Karczmarski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 655, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 3Gibson, 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