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Scientific Name: Hilsa kelee (Cuvier, 1829)
English Name: Kelee shad
Local/Bangla Name: Gurta ilish (গুরতা ইলিশ), Boro Choukka (বড় চৌক্কা), Chokkha ilish ( চোক্ষা ইলিশ)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Dorosomatidae
Description:
D1 3+13; D2 absent; P1 14; P2 8; A 19. Color of back blue-green, flanks silvery, a dark humeral blotch (behind operculum) followed by 3 to 7 similar spots along flanks and occasionally spots along back. Tips of anterior dorsalfin rays dusky, caudal tin tips faintly dusky. Body fairly deep and compressed, belly with distinct keel of scutes. A black spot behind gill cover. Deep-bodied Sardinella species have no notch in midline of upper jaw and no spots along flank; species of Tenualosa have no fronto-parietal striae.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Sundarbans Mangrove area
Environment:
Marine, Brakish, Freshwater
Other References:
Rahman AKA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondoker M (2009) Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 24. Marine Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 485 p.
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.
Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y. Marine Fishes of Bangladesh (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.
