Ilisha africana

BéarlaBelly with 25 to 27 + 7 or 8 sharp scutes. Eye large, lower jaw projecting. Dorsal fin at or before midpoint of body; pelvic fins small; anal fin long, its origin below dorsal fin base. Swim bladder with two short tubes passing back in the muscles on either of haemal spines. Other clupeids in the area are more slender, with much shorter anal fin and the lower jaw not projecting.

• Clupea africana Bloch, 1795
• Ilisha dolloi (Boulenger, 1902)
• Clupanodon africanus (Bloch, 1795)
• Pellona africana (Bloch, 1795)
• Pristigaster dolloi Boulenger, 1902
• Pellona gabonica Duméril, 1861
• Ilisha melanota Derscheid, 1924
• Pellona iserti Valenciennes, 1847