Real photoREAL PHOTO
Dorosomatidae
Indian river shad
Gudusia chapra
Dorosomatid Fish from Bay of Bengal
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- South Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Compressed cross-section
MediumIndian river shad is a freshwater fish of Asia. The species occupies freshwater habitats. Records give a maximum length of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Gudusia
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Asia: rivers of India and Bangladesh affluent to the Bay of Bengal (chiefly the Ganges and Brahmaputra systems and the Mahanadi River of Orissa). Reported from Nepal (Ref. 9496 ) and Pakistan (Ref. 41236 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
