WoRMS taxon details

Hilsa kelee (Cuvier, 1829)

212278  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212278)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Clupea kelee Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. <em>Déterville, Paris.</em> Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348
page(s): 320 [details]   
Description Enters estuaries and able to tolerate quite low salinities (7 ppt). Feeds chiefly on phytoplankton (mainly diatoms, also...  
Description Enters estuaries and able to tolerate quite low salinities (7 ppt). Feeds chiefly on phytoplankton (mainly diatoms, also dinoflagellates), but also copepods, molluscan and crustacean larvae, prawns, amphipods and polychaetes. Spawns (at least in Godavari estuary) around February. Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted and boiled. Made into fish balls.  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Hilsa kelee (Cuvier, 1829). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212278 on 2024-03-29
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2006-12-18 14:33:13Z
changed
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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original description  (of Alosa malayana Bleeker, 1866) Bleeker, P. (1866). Description de quelques espèces inédites ou peu connues de Clupéoïdes de l'Inde archipélagique. <em>Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde.</em> v. 3: 293-308.
page(s): 294 [details]   

original description  (of Clupea kelee Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. <em>Déterville, Paris.</em> Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348
page(s): 320 [details]   

original description  (of Alosa brevis Bleeker, 1848) Bleeker, P. (1948). A contribution to the knowledge of the ichthyological fauna of Sumbawa. <em>Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia (Singapore).</em> v. 2 (no. 9): 632-639. [details]   

original description  (of Alausa kanagurta Bleeker, 1852) Bleeker, P. (1852). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Haringachtige visschen [Clupeoïden on cover] van den Soenda-Molukschen Archipel. <em>Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.</em> v. 24 (8): 1-48 + 49-52., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41214689 [details]   

original description  (of Alausa brachysoma Bleeker, 1854) Bleeker, P. (1854). Nieuwe tientallen diagnostische beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Sumatra. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 5 (no. 3): 495-534. [details]   

context source (HKRMS) ERM. (1998). Fisheries resources and fishing operations in Hong Kong waters. Final report. Submitted to Agriculture & Fisheries Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government. [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Enters estuaries and able to tolerate quite low salinities (7 ppt). Feeds chiefly on phytoplankton (mainly diatoms, also dinoflagellates), but also copepods, molluscan and crustacean larvae, prawns, amphipods and polychaetes. Spawns (at least in Godavari estuary) around February. Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted and boiled. Made into fish balls.  [details]
LanguageName 
English Kelee shad  [details]