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Thrissina whiteheadi Wongratana 1983
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Description
Thrissina whiteheadi
Common name. Persian Gulf thryssa.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from T. mystica by: ● 18–21 gill rakers on lower limb of first gill arch / ● 39–43 branched anal rays. Size up to 205 mm SL.
Distribution. Endemic to Persian Gulf. In Shatt al Arab/ Arvand, Hammar Marsh and Lake Hawizah, widespread in sea.
Habitat. Pelagic in coastal waters, entering freshwaters.
Biology. No data.
Conservation status. LC
Further reading. Carpenter et al. 1997 (identification, distribution); Hata et al. 2021 (redescription).
Notes
Published as part of Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash & Kaya, Cüneyt, 2025, Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia, GmbH, Berlin / Boston :De Gruyter on page 75, DOI: 10.1515/9783111677811, http://zenodo.org/record/17881367
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wongratana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Clupeiformes
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Thrissina
- Species
- whiteheadi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thrissina whiteheadi Wongratana, 1983 sec. Freyhof, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Jouladeh-Roudbar & Kaya, 2025
References
- Carpenter, K. E., F. Krupp, D. A. Jones & U. Zajonz. 1997. FAO Species Identification Field Guide for fishery purposes: Living marine resources of Kuwait, Eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. FAO, Rome.
- Hata, H., P. N. Psomadakis, H. B. Osmany & H. Motomura. 2021. A new species of Thrissina from Pakistan (Arabian Sea), with redescription of Thrissina whiteheadi (Wongratana 1983) (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae). Ichthyological Research 68: 486-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-021-00799-1