Caspian marine shad
📖 Overview
Occurs in brackish water and non-anadromous, but strongly migratory. Feeds on small clupeids, gobies, atherines, also crustaceans and occasionally insects and mollusks. Spawning patterns among the subspecies vary but occur mostly in spring and summer after an inshore migration and movement northward.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0. Body fairly elongate, more `herring-like' than `shad-like'. gill rakers thick and coarse, shorter, equal to or a little longer than gill filaments, either straight or curved, pointed or blunt, occasionally even bifurcated at tips. Teeth well developed in both jaws. Other Caspian shads have deeper, more shad-like bodies.: fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Caspian marine shad is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Caspian marine shad is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Various spawning patterns among the subspecies (mostly in spring and summer after an inshore migration and movement northward).
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Brackish; pelagic; oceanodromous. Temperate; 48°N - 35°N, 45°E - 56°E
🌿 Ecology
small clupeids, gobies, atherines, also crustaceans and occasionally insects and mollusks
📐 Morphometrics
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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