fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
in the family
Clupeidae
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 ...
. When subfamilies are recognized, it is placed in the subfamily
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:
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Tenualosa ilisha
The ilish (''Tenualosa ilisha'') ( bn, ইলিশ, translit=iliś; also known as the ilishi, hilsa, hilsa herring or hilsa shad, is a species of fish related to the herring, in the family Clupeidae. It is a very popular and sought-after food ...
Tenualosa macrura
''Tenualosa'' is a genus of fish in the family Clupeidae. When subfamilies are recognized, it is placed in the subfamily Alosinae (the shads) or Dorosomatinae (gizzard shads).
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus: ...
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Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Tenualosa reevesii'' ( J. Richardson, 1846) (Reeves' shad)
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Tenualosa thibaudeaui
The Laotian shad (''Tenualosa thibaudeaui'') is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae. It is found in the Mekong River drainage in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialis ...
Tenualosa toli
The toli shad or Chinese herring (''Tenualosa toli'') is a fish of the family Clupeidae, a species of shad distributed in the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal to the Java Sea and the South China Sea. It may be found in Mauritius and the ...
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Valenciennes
Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a s ...