Published October 19, 2021
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Alosa sapidissima
Description
** Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811).
American Shad. To 76 cm (30 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Native to Atlantic Ocean; intentionally introduced to Pacific Ocean, spread to Kamchatka, Russia to south-eastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía de Todos Santos, northern Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface to 250 m (820 ft) (Allen and Smith 1988). While there are a few other, deeper, records (e.g., 440 m, 1,443 ft, Bradburn et al. 2011; 646 m, 2,119 ft, 881 m, 2,890 ft, and 1,151 m, 3,885 ft, NWFSC-FRAM), all are from bottom trawls and the fish could have entered the nets in the water column as the net were being deployed or retrieved. Anadromous.
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Clupeidae
- Genus
- Alosa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Clupeiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Wilson
- Species
- sapidissima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.
- Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.