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Dorosomatidae
Thai gizzard shad
Anodontostoma thailandiae
Paddle shaped second maxilla meets gill rakers longer than filaments
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Indian Ocean
East Asia
Fusiform
MediumThai gizzard shad is known from Indo-Pacific as a fish. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 18 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Dorosomatidae
- Genus
- Anodontostoma
- Maximum length
- 18 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Indian Ocean (northern part of Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea at Phuket in Thailand), Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea. Also found in Indonesia (Ref. 7050 ). In earlier works, Anodontostoma chacunda was often misapplied to Anodontostoma thailandiae .
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
