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Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)

American gizzard shad
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Dorosoma cepedianum   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Image of Dorosoma cepedianum (American gizzard shad)
Dorosoma cepedianum
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United States (contiguous states) country information

Common names: Eastern gizzard shad, Gizzard shad, Hickory shad
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
Importance: minor commercial | Ref: FAO, 1994
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Great lakes, Mississippi, Atlantic, and Gulf drainages from Vermont to central North Dakota, and south to southern Florida (Ref. 86798). Found in Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River estuary, Virginia, and New Jersey (Ref. 4639). Also Ref. 188, 10294, 27549, 93252.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Page, L.M. and B.M. Burr, 2011
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Alose noyer, Sábalo molleja, Gizzard shad, ... more

التصنيف / Names الأسماء الشائعة | مرادفات | Catalog of Fishes(جنس, الانواع) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Dorosomatidae (Gizzard shads and sardinellas)
Etymology: Dorosoma: Greek, doris = lance + Greek, soma = body (Ref. 45335);  cepedianum: Doro=lanceolate; soma=body (referring to the body shape of the young), and cepedianum, in honor of Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville sur Ilion, Comte de La Cepede (1756-1825) (Ref. 79012).
  More on author: Lesueur.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range البيئة

بحري; المياه العذبة; مياه مخلوطة; أسماك صاعدة (Ref. 51243); نطاق العمق 0 - 33 m (Ref. 39020).   Subtropical; ? - 32°C (Ref. 12741); 49°N - 21°N, 108°W - 70°W (Ref. 188)

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