Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Clupeidae > Tenualosa > Tenualosa toli

Tenualosa toli (Toli shad; Hilsa herring; Giant herring; Chinese-herring; Chinese herring; Herring; Big-mouthed tenualosa)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The toli shad or Chinese herring (Tenualosa toli) is a fish of the Clupeidae family, a species of shad distributed in the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal to the Java Sea and the South China Sea. It may be found in Mauritius and the Cambodian Mekong near the Vietnam border. It inhabits fast-flowing, turbid estuaries and adjacent coastal waters.
View Wikipedia Record: Tenualosa toli

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Tenualosa toli

Attributes

Migration [1]  Anadromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sanjay Gandhi National Park II 439343 Maharashtra, India
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

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♦ 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
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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