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Definition of Clupea alosa

Clupea alosa
Alose A"lose, n. [F., fr. L. alosa or alausa.] (Zo["o]l.) The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

Meaning of Clupea alosa from wikipedia

- Alosa is a genus of fish, the river herrings, in the family Alosidae. Along with other genera in the subfamily Alosinae, they are generally known as shads...
- (Girard, 1854) Alosa musica Girard, 1855 Sardinops sagax musica (Girard, 1855) Alausa californica Gill, 1862 Clupea advena Philippi, 1879 Clupea neopilchardus...
- The American shad (Alosa sapidissima) is a species of anadromous clupeid fish naturally distributed on the North American coast of the North Atlantic...
- it was the first sardine to be described. It was originally put under Clupea from 1842 to 1879. Under this genus, Gunther (1868) gave a general description...
- The allis shad (Alosa alosa) is a widespread Northeast Atlantic species of fish in the Alosidae family. It is an anadromous fish which migrates into fresh...
- fishes. Alaosa vistonica belongs to the genus Alosa, a derivatuion of alausa the Latin name for Clupea alosa which is the type species of the genus through...
- species Clupea alosa and Clupea fincta. Type species is Clupea alosa Linnaeus 1758 by subsequent absolute tautonymy (now Alosa alosa). Rupicapra Garsault...
- The alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus; pl.: alewives) is an anadromous species of herring found in North America. It is one of the "typical" North American...
- landlocked. Several species are of commercial importance, e.g. in the genus Alosa (river herrings), Brevoortia (menhadens), and Sardina. The Alosidae were...
- landlocked. This species is endemic to Greece. Alosa macedonica was first formally described as Clupea macedonica in 1921 by the Italian physician and...