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American Gizzard Shad
Dorosoma cepedianum (Le Sueur, 1818)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes »  order Clupeiformes »  family Clupeidae - herrings, shads, sardines and allies »  genus Dorosoma

Scientific synonyms

Megalops cepediana Le Sueur, 1818
Megalops bimaculata Le Sueur, 1847
Chatoessus ellipticus Kirtland, 1838
Dorosoma cepedianum exile Jordan & Gilbert, 1883
Clupea heterura Rafinesque, 1818
Clupea heterurus Rafinesque, 1818
Chatoessus insociabilis Abbott, 1861
Dorosoma lacepedi Berry, 1958
Dorosoma notata Rafinesque, 1820

Other names

= Eastern Gizzard Shad
= Gizzard Mud
= Gizzard Nanny Shad
= Gizzard Winter Shad
= Hickory Shad
= Mud Shad
= Nanny Shad

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IUCN category 2024-1:
Least Concern LC

Links and literature

CH DE EN FR IT NL PR SP FishBase [1604]

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]
CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication 2025 [species/7851]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2001-2025): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)]
Data retrieved on: 25 March 2025
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [191210]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
CZ Hanel L., Novák J. (2001): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces), 2. Nozdratí (Sarcopterygii), paprskoploutví (Actinopterygii) /mnohoploutví (Polypteriformes) – bezostní (Clupeiformes), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 64 pp. [as Dorosoma cepedianum (Le Sueur, 1818)]
Data retrieved on: 5 June 2013
EN Daniels, R. A.; R. S. Morse; B. R. Weatherwax (2006): Fish, Conewango Creek, Allegheny River Drainage, New York, USA, Check List 2(1):14-19 [as Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1817)]
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