WoRMS taxon details
Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811)
AphiaID: 158670
AphiaID: 158670
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Clupeiformes (Order) > Clupeidae (Family) > Alosa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Alosa Linck, 1790 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alosa praestabilis DeKay, 1842 Clupea indigena Mitchill, 1814 Clupea sapidissima Wilson, 1811 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | British Columbia [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Clavellisa cordata Wilson C.B., 1915 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Argulus canadensis Wilson C.B., 1916 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus elongatus Heegaard, 1943 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (39 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (336 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (148 nucleotides; 138 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feed on copepods, insect larvae, mysids and small fishes [details] Distribution: Newfoundland, St. Lawrence River and Nova Scotia southward to central Florida [details] Habitat: anadromous species; found in salt water to depths of 250 m; spawns in freshwaters [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Scientific- Commercial [details] Predators: Mammals, bony and fin fishes and seals [details] Reproduction: Migrate, repeatedly throughout their lifetime, in spring to (slow-moving) rivers; females may produce up to 600,000 eggs; external fertilization [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158670 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158670 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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