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Alosa braschnikowi

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Kingdom
  
Family
  
Clupeidae

Scientific name
  
Alosa braschnikowi

Found in
  
Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Genus
  
Alosa

Rank
  
Species


Similar
  
Alosa caspia, Alosa kessleri, Alosa maeotica, Killarney shad, Alabama shad

Alosa braschnikowi, the Caspian marine shad or Brazhnikov's shad, is one of the clupeid fish species endemic to the Caspian Sea.

This is a relatively large shad, typically 30 cm and up to 50 cm length. It also has a more "herring-like" body shape than other Caspian shad species, being a slender and elongate fish. It has well developed teeth in both jaws.

Alosa braschnikowi feeds on small fishes but also on crustaceans and occasionally other invertebrates. It performs migrations within the Caspian Sea, but does not enter rivers. Several subspecies have been described, with different breeding habits and with varying gill raker numbers. The suggested subspecies include:

  • A. b. agrachanica (Mikhailovskaya,1941), western Caspian, or southeast in winter
  • A. b. autumnalis (Berg, 1915), southern Caspian
  • A. b. brashnikovi (Borodin, 1904), all Caspian, spawning in north
  • A. b. grimmi (Borodin, 1904), eastern coasts of southern Caspian
  • A. b. kisselevitshi (Bulgakov, 1926)
  • A. b. nirchi (Morosov, 1928), the Krasnovodsk herring, present in the Krasnovodsk Gulf and the Kenderli Bay.
  • A. b. orientalis (Mikhailovskaya,1941), eastern part of southern Caspian
  • A. b. sarensis (Mikhailovskaya,1941), western part of southern Caspian.
  • Even Alosa curensis and Alosa maeotica have sometimes been listed as subspecies of A. brashnikovi; the latter is from the Pontic basin and now considered distinct (non-Caspian) species. Several further synonyms exist.

    References

    Alosa braschnikowi Wikipedia


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