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Dorosomatidae
Chacunda gizzard shad
Anodontostoma chacunda
Fine spaced scale teeth accompany gill rakers shorter than filaments
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Pacific Ocean
Fusiform
MediumChacunda gizzard shad is a marine fish of Indo-West Pacific. The species occupies estuaries and brackish water. The largest recorded length is 22 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Anodontostoma
- Maximum length
- 22 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf to coasts of India and Andaman Sea, to Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, Viet Nam, and Philippines, south to northern Australia, the Caroline Islands and New Caledonia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Family
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