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Scientific Name: Tenualosa toli (Valenciennes, 1847)
English Name: Toli shad
Local/Bangla Name: Chandana ilish (চন্দনা ইলিশ)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Dorosomatidae
Description:
D1 17; D2 absent; P1 15; P2 I/7; A 3+17. Body silvery with yellow tinge; a diffuse dark blotch behind gill opening; fins hyaline. Body fusiform, moderately deep and strongly compressed; belly with 28 to 30 secutes; a distinct median notch in upper jaw; pre-operculum with an obtuse rounded angle; gill rakers fine.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Schooling in coastal waters, euryhaline and perhaps anadromous, ascending rivers to
breed.
Environment:
Marine, Brakish, Freshwater
Other References:
Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.
