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Alosa volgensis (Berg, 1913)

Description

Common Names

  • Volga shad , English , Russia
  • Volga aloosa , Estonian , Estonia

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Clupeiformes

    Family: Alosidae

    Genus: Alosa

    Species: Alosa volgensis (Berg, 1913)

    Climate Zone

  • Boreal

    • Location

  • Europe: Russia.

    • Biology

    Occurs in a wide variety of marine habitats; migrate to delta and lower reaches of large rivers and spawns in main channel. Feeds on a wide variety of zooplankton (e.g. crustaceans) and small fish. Enters rivers with ripe gonads. Eggs are pelagic (Ref. 59043).

    Habitat

    brackish