Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Clupeidae > Nematalosa > Nematalosa nasus

Nematalosa nasus (Thread-finned gizzard shad; Long-ray bony bream; Long-finned gizzard shad; Hairback; Gizzard shad; Bloch's gizzard shad)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Bloch's gizzard shad, (Nematalosa nasus), also known as Bloch's gizzard shad, Gizzard shad, Hairback, Long-finned gizzard shad, Long-ray bony bream and Thread-finned gizzard shad, are a widespread and common, small to medium-sized anadromous fish found in all marine, freshwater and brackish waters throughout Indo-West Pacific, towards eastward of Andaman Sea, South China Sea and the Philippines to Korean peninsula. Single specimen recorded from waters of South Africa. It was described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1795.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Anadromous

Protected Areas

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

Predators

Argyrosomus hololepidotus (Southern meagre)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neoechinorhynchus dimorphospinus[3]
Neoechinorhynchus nematalosi[3]

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
♦ 2"Diet Composition of Southern Meagre (Argyrosomus hololepidotus) in Northwest of Persian Gulf", Majid Shekari and Seyed Ahmad Reza Hashemi, American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 12 (10): 1316-1322, 2012
♦ 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