''Alosa caspia'' is a species of

clupeid Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, hilsa, and menhadens. The clupeoids include many of the most important food fishes in the world, and are also commonly caught for production of f ...

fish, one of the species of

shad The Alosinae, or the shads,Alosinae

(genus ''

Alosa ''Alosa'' is a genus of fish, the river herrings, in the family (biology), family Clupeidae. Along with other genera in the subfamily Alosinae, they are generally known as shads. tp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac482e/ac482e27.pdf Subfamily A ...

'') endemic to the Caspian Sea">endemic">tp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac482e/ac482e27.pdf Subfamily A ...

'') endemic to the Caspian Sea basin.Freyhof, J. & Kottelat, M. 2008
''Alosa caspia''.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 18 April 2015. FishBase treats separately three subspecies from the Caspian: * Caspian shad, ''Alosa caspia caspia'' (Karl Eichwald, Eichwald, 1838) * Enzeli shad, ''Alosa caspia knipowitschi'' (Iljin, 1927) * Astrabad shad, ''Alosa caspia persica'' (Iljin, 1927) Previously the taxonomic circumscription and geographic range of ''A. caspia'' have been broader, encompassing also the

Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov ( Crimean Tatar: ''Azaq deñizi''; russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; uk, Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about ) Strait of Kerch, ...

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Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

basins.Peter J.P. Whitehead (1985) tp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ac482e/ac482e27.pdf Subfamily AlosinaeIn: Clupeoid Fishes of the World - an annotated and illustrated catalog of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 7, Part 1. Rome:

UNDP The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

FAO. A. caspia (Eichwald,1838) - каспийско-черноморский пузанок
Позвоночные животные России. sevin.ru Up to ten subspecies were recognised; these included forms now classified as ''

Alosa tanaica ''Alosa tanaica'', called in English the Azov shad or Black Sea shad, is a species of clupeid fish endemic to the Ponto-Caspian basin. It is an anadromous species, spawning in the lower reaches of rivers. It is widespread in the eastern Black ...

'' (and its synonyms) and even the Balkan freshwater endemics '' Alosa macedonica'' and ''

Alosa vistonica ''Alosa vistonica'' the Thracian shad, is a species of shad, a freshwater fish in the family Alosidae. It is endemic to a single shallow lake, Lake Vistonida in Greece. It is classified as critically endangered (CR) and is threatened by sewage, ...

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caspia ''Caspia'' is a genus of marine snails, brackish water snails and freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. ''Caspia'' is the type genus of the Caspiidae, that is a synonym of Pyrgu ...

Fish of the Caspian Sea Freshwater fish of Asia Freshwater fish of Europe Least concern biota of Asia Least concern biota of Europe Taxa named by Karl Eichwald Fish described in 1838 {{Clupeiformes-stub