Alosa caspia caspia

englantiBody `shad-like', usually rather deep and compressed. Total gill rakers 50 to 180, long and thin, distinctly longer than filaments. Teeth poorly developed in jaws, sometimes barely detectable. A black spot posterior to gill opening and occasionally further black spots on flank in some cases.

• Caspialosa caspia knipowitschi saraica Berg, 1948
• Caspialosa caspia persica Iljin, 1927
• Alosa alosa bulgarica Drensky, 1934
• Caspialosa tanaica palaeostomi Sadowsky, 1934
• Clupea caspia Eichwald, 1838
• Alosa caspia (Eichwald, 1838)
• Caspialosa caspia kaidakensis Kazancheev, 1936
• Caspialosa caspia aestuarina Berg, 1932
• Caspialosa caspia salina Svetovidov, 1936
• Caspialosa caspia (Eichwald, 1838)