WoRMS taxon details
Thryssa malabarica (Bloch, 1795)
212288 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212288)
accepted
Species
Clupea cuvierii Swainson, 1839 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795 · unaccepted
Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Thrissocles malabaricus (Bloch, 1795) · unaccepted
Thryssa cuvieri (Swainson, 1839) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795) Bloch, M. E. (1795). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 9. i-ii + 1-192, Pls. 397-429. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Thryssa malabarica (Bloch, 1795). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212288 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795) Bloch, M. E. (1795). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 9. i-ii + 1-192, Pls. 397-429. [details]
original description (of Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795) Bloch, M. E. (1795). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 9. i-ii + 1-192, Pls. 397-429. [details]
original description (of Clupea cuvierii Swainson, 1839) Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. <em>Spottiswoode & Co., London.</em> v. 2: i-vi + 1-452. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795) Bloch, M. E. (1795). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 9. i-ii + 1-192, Pls. 397-429. [details]
original description (of Clupea cuvierii Swainson, 1839) Swainson, W. (1839). On the natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. <em>Spottiswoode & Co., London.</em> v. 2: i-vi + 1-452. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Thryssa cuvieri (Swainson, 1839))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thryssa malabarica)
To FishBase (from synonym Thrissocles malabaricus (Bloch, 1795))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795)
To FishBase (from synonym Thryssa cuvieri (Swainson, 1839))
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Thrissocles malabaricus (Bloch, 1795))
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Thryssa cuvieri (Swainson, 1839))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thryssa malabarica)
To FishBase (from synonym Thrissocles malabaricus (Bloch, 1795))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795)
To FishBase (from synonym Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795)
To FishBase (from synonym Thryssa cuvieri (Swainson, 1839))
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Clupea malabaricus Bloch, 1795)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Clupea malabarica Bloch, 1795)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Thrissocles malabaricus (Bloch, 1795))
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
