the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of genus Alosa (shad) (10)
Any clupeoid of the genus Alosa; the British species are the allice, A. communis or vulgaris, and the twaite (or herring-shad), A. finta; the…
In Spain: = allis shad at allis, n.
A shad or river herring (genus Alosa); esp. the alewife, A. pseudoharengus.