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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, Freshwater, Brackish (Pelagic-neritic; anadromous)
Other References:
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.
