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Alosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0. Belly with a distinct keel of scutes. Lower jaw not rising steeply within mouth; teeth prominent at front of lower jaw. Lower gill rakers slender. Back bluish green, abruptly changing to silver on flank; no dark spot at shoulder. Closely resembles A. mediocris of Atlantic coasts, which has no upper and weak lower jaw teeth, a dark shoulder spot and the body deeper than head length (Ref. 188).

Common Names

  • Placka mississippská , Czech , Czechia
  • Blå stamsild , Danish , Denmark
  • Blue herring , English , USA
  • Golden shad , English , USA
  • Green herring , English , USA
  • River herring , English , USA
  • Skipjack , English , USA
  • Skipjack herring , English , USA
  • Skipjack shad , English , Global
  • Roheselg-aloosa , Estonian , Estonia
  • Hyppijäsilli , Finnish , Finland
  • Alose dorée , French , France
  • 墨西哥湾西鲱 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 墨西哥灣西鯡 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 金色大眼鯡 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 金色大眼鲱 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • зеленоспинка , Russian , Russia
  • Sábalo del Golfo , Spanish , Spain

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Clupeiformes

    Family: Alosidae

    Genus: Alosa

    Species: Alosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)

    Climate Zone

  • Subtropical

    • Location

  • Western Central Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico (from Corpus Christi in Texas eastward to Pensacola in Florida; also in rivers, e.g. Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to Minnesota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania).

    • Biology

    Generally present in coastal marine water (Ref. 37039). Enter brackish- and freshwaters, but perhaps not always or not consistently anadromous (Ref. 188), although strongly migratory within rivers (Ref. 10294) , mostly in fast-flowing water where they are renowned for leaping. Feed on small fishes, the juveniles on insects. Spawning times and places not certain. Adults serve as hosts to the larvae (glochidia) of the economically valuable pearly mussel (Fusconaia ebena) of the Mississippi basin (Ref. 188).

    Habitat

    freshwater