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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Herrings
  6. Clupeoidei
  7. Shads and Sardines

family

Shads and Sardines

Alosidae

Includes
8 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Anadromous Shads 5 native
  • Menhaden 2 native
  • Sardines 1 native
  • True Sardine

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native shads and sardines All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Atlantic Menhaden Brevoortia tyrannus 3,969 observations
  • Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus 2,159 observations
  • American Shad Alosa sapidissima 675 observations
  • Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax 631 observations
  • Gulf Menhaden Brevoortia patronus 620 observations
  • Hickory Shad Alosa mediocris 376 observations
  • Skipjack Shad Alosa chrysochloris 272 observations
  • Blueback Shad Alosa aestivalis 162 observations
  • Alabama Shad Alosa alabamae 12 observations

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