WoRMS taxon details

Alosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811)

158669  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158669)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Clupea pseudoharengus Wilson, 1811) Anonymous [Wilson, A.]. (1811). Clupea, in ichthyology, . <em>The Cyclopedia; or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and letters.</em> v. 9: 3 unnumbered pp. [Authorship of article according to Rafinesque 1818]. [details]   
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence and Nova Scotia to North Carolina  
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence and Nova Scotia to North Carolina [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Alosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158669 on 2024-03-19
Date
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2005-05-26 07:43:32Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Clupea megalops Rafinesque, 1818) Rafinesque, C.S. (1818). Second decade of new North American fishes. <em>Am. Monthly Mag. Crit. Rev.</em> 2(3): 204-206.
page(s): 206 [details]   

original description  (of Clupea parvula Mitchill, 1814) Mitchill, S. L. (1814). Report, in part, of Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D., Professor of Natural History, &c, on the fishes of New-York. <em>D. Carlisle, New York.</em> 1-28.
page(s): 20 [details]   

original description  (of Clupea pseudoharengus Wilson, 1811) Anonymous [Wilson, A.]. (1811). Clupea, in ichthyology, . <em>The Cyclopedia; or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and letters.</em> v. 9: 3 unnumbered pp. [Authorship of article according to Rafinesque 1818]. [details]   

original description  (of Clupea vernalis Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. <em>Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York.</em> v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 454, Pl. 5 (fig. 9) [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Diet Feeds on shrimps, small fishes, diatoms, copepods and ostracods [details]

Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence and Nova Scotia to North Carolina [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat anadromous species, spawn in freshwater, landlock populations also exist; found at sea at depths of 5- 145 m [details]

Importance Social- Commercial [details]

Predators Eels, yellow perch, white perch, Atlantic salmon, striped bass and sea birds [details]

Reproduction Migrate to (freshwater) lakes and rivers to spawn during spring; external fertilization [details]
LanguageName 
Dutch Amerikaanse rivierharing  [details]
English sawbelliesgaspereaugaspareauale-wifealewife  [details]
French gaspareau  [details]