Tenualosa
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''Tenualosa'' is a genus of
fish Fish are Aquatic animal, aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack Limb (anatomy), limbs with Digit (anatomy), digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous and bony fish as we ...
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 producti ...
. When subfamilies are recognized, it is placed in the subfamily
Alosinae The Alosinae, or the shads,Alosinae
(the shads) or Dorosomatinae (gizzard shads).


Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * '' Tenualosa ilisha'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Hilsa shad) * '' Tenualosa macrura'' ( Bleeker, 1852) (Longtail shad) * ''
Tenualosa reevesii ''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 ...
'' ( J. Richardson, 1846) (Reeves' shad) * '' Tenualosa thibaudeaui'' ( J. Durand, 1940) (Laotian shad) * '' Tenualosa toli'' ( Valenciennes, 1847) (Toli shad)


References

Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Clupeiformes-stub