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Alosa fallax nilotica (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809)
Synonym for Alosa fallax (Lacepède, 1803)

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  Etymology of generic noun  
Latin, alausa = a fish cited by Ausonius and Latin, halec = pickle, dealing with the Greek word hals = salt; it is also the old Saxon name for shad = "alli" ; 1591 (Ref. 45335).
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