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Gizzard Shads
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Gizzard Shads

Dorosoma

Dorosoma is a genus of gizzard shads, fish of the herring family Clupeidae. The five species are native to the New World, and are known from both freshwater and the waters of estuaries and bays.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

American Gizzard Shad

speciesDorosoma cepedianum

Threadfin Shad

speciesDorosoma petenense

Mexican River Gizzard Shad

speciesDorosoma anale

Nicaragua Gizzard Shad

speciesDorosoma chavesi

Pacific Gizzard Shad

speciesDorosoma smithi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88030.