🐟American shad
美洲西鯡（學名：Alosa sapidissima），又名美國鰣、美國鰣魚為輻鰭魚綱鲱形目鲱科的其中一種，分布於北美洲加拿大新斯科細亞省、聖羅倫斯河至美國佛羅里達州淡水、半鹹水及鹹水水域，棲息深度5-145公尺，體長可達76公分，棲息在沿海半鹹水水域，為洄游性魚類，繁殖期時洄游至淡水溪流產卵，屬肉食性，以魚類、橈腳類、甲殼類為食，可做為食用魚。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 3.02 kg
- Body length
- 0.5 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the American shad
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.02 kgrecord 5.5 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length0.5 mrecord 0.76 m · FishBasetypical adultFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Record: largest individual on record
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female0.62 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan13 yearsrecord 13 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level3.48FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.48 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for American shad yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderClupeiformes
- ›familyClupeidae
- ›genusAlosa
- ›speciesAlosa sapidissima
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- orderClupeiformes
- suborderClupeoidei
- genusAlosa
All 11 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderClupeiformes
- suborderClupeoidei
- genusAlosa
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