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Scientific Name: Hilsa kelee (Cuvier, 1829)
English Name: Kelee shad
Local/Bangla Name: Gurta ilish (গুরতা ইলিশ), Boro Choukka (বড় চৌক্কা), Chokkha ilish ( চোক্ষা ইলিশ)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Dorosomatidae
Description:
D1 3+13; D2 absent; P1 14; P2 8; A 19. Color of back blue-green, flanks silvery, a dark humeral blotch (behind operculum) followed by 3 to 7 similar spots along flanks and occasionally spots along back. Tips of anterior dorsalfin rays dusky, caudal tin tips faintly dusky. Body fairly deep and compressed, belly with distinct keel of scutes. A black spot behind gill cover. Deep-bodied Sardinella species have no notch in midline of upper jaw and no spots along flank; species of Tenualosa have no fronto-parietal striae.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Found in rivers and estuaries throughtout Bangladesh. Very common in the river Meghna near Chandpur.
Environment:
Freshwater, Brackish (Demersal)
Comments:
It is an anadromous fish. Also found in marine envirment
Main References:
Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp.
