Gudusia chapra

Gudusia chapra, or the Indian river shad, is a species of fish in the family Clupeidae, occurring in rivers of India and Bangladesh draining to the Bay of Bengal (e.g. the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Mahanadi River), and also reported from Pakistan and Nepal.^[2] Outside the rivers it also occurs in ponds, beels, ditches and inundated fields.^[3]

Gudusia chapra
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Clupeiformes
Family:	Dorosomatidae
Genus:	Gudusia
Species:	G. chapra
Binomial name
Gudusia chapra (Hamilton, 1822)
Synonyms[2]
Clupanodon chapra Hamilton, 1822 Clupea chapra (Hamilton, 1822) Clupanodon cagius Hamilton, 1822 Clupea indica Gray, 1834 Clupea champil Gray, 1834 Alausa microlepis Valenciennes, 1847 Clupea suhia Chaudhuri, 1912 Gudusia godanahiai Srivastava, 1968