Shad
Shad
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<catset>Category="Clupeidae"</catset><table border=1 cellpadding=0 style="position:relative; margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; border-collapse: collapse; float:right; clear:right; width:200px;"><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><div style="float:right; font-size:70%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">?</div><b> Shad</b></th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;">[image]<br><small> <i>Alosa pseudoharengus</i></small></td></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><b><a href="Scientific classification">Scientific classification</a></b></th></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><td> <table cellpadding=2 style="margin:0 auto; text-align:left; background:none;"><tr valign=top><td>Kingdom:</td><td><a href="Animal">Animalia</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Phylum:</td><td><a href="Chordate">Chordata</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Class:</td><td><a href="Actinopterygii">Actinopterygii</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Order:</td><td><a href="Clupeiformes">Clupeiformes</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Family:</td><td><a href="Clupeidae">Clupeidae</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Genus:</td><td><i><b>Alosa</b></i></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="text-align:center; background: pink;"><th><b> Species</b></th></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0 .5em;"> <i>see text</i></td></tr></table><p>The <b>shads</b> or <b>river herrings</b> comprise the <a href="Genus">Genus</a> <i><b>Alosa</b></i>, <a href="Fish (disambiguation)">fishes</a> related to <a href="Herring">Herring</a> in the <a href="Family (biology)">family</a> <a href="Clupeidae">Clupeidae</a>. They are distinct from others in that family by having a deeper body and spawning in rivers. The several species frequent different areas on both sides of the <a href="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> and in the <a href="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>. The shad fry live for a year or two in <a href="Fresh water">Fresh water</a>.<p><b>Species:</b> <ul> <li> <i>A. aestivalis</i> (Blueback shad) <li> <i>A. agone</i> (Agone) <li> <i>A. alabamae</i> (Alabama shad) <li> <i>A. alosa</i> (Allis shad) <li> <i>A. brashnikovi</i> (Caspian marine shad) <li> <i>A. caspia</i> (Caspian shad) <ul> <li> <i>A. caspia caspia</i> (Caspian shad) <li> <i>A. caspia knipowitschi</i> (Enzeli shad) <li> <i>A. caspia persica</i> (Astrabad shad) </ul> <li> <i>A. chrysochloris</i> (Skipjack shad) <li> <i>A. fallax</i> (Twaite shad) <ul> <li> <i>A. fallax nilotica</i> (Mediterranean shad) </ul> <li> <i>A. kessleri</i> (Caspian anadromous shad) <li> <i>A. macedonica</i> (Macedonia shad) <li> <i>A. maeotica</i> (Black sea shad) <li> <i>A. mediocris</i> (Hickory shad) <li> <i>A. pontica</i> (Pontic shad) <li> <i>A. pseudoharengus</i> (<a href="Alewife">Alewife</a>) <li> <i>A. sapidissima</i> (<a href="American shad">American</a> or Atlantic shad) <li> <i>A. saposchnikowii</i> (Saposhnikovi shad) <li> <i>A. sphaerocephala</i> (Agrakhan shad) <li> <i>A. tanaica</i> (Azov shad) <li> <i>A. vistonica</i> (Greek Shad) </ul><p>There are a few land-locked varieties, one from <a href="Killarney">Killarney</a> in <a href="Ireland">Ireland</a> and two from lakes in northern Italy.