Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Pristigasteridae > Ilisha > Ilisha africana

Ilisha africana (West African ilisha; Sardine of estuaries; Herring; African ilisha; Sardineta africana)

Synonyms:
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Wikipedia Abstract

Ilisha africana, called the West African ilisha, is a species of longfin herring native to the coasts, lagoons and estuaries of western Africa from Senegal to Angola. It prefers shallow waters, and is unlikely to be found below 25 m. Some individuals can reach 30 cm, with the average closer to 18 cm. The species is commercially fished, with 32,815 t landed in 2008.
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Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[1]
Eleotris senegalensis (Sleeper goby)[2]
Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bonga shad)[2]
Nematopalaemon hastatus (estuarine prawn)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicometra fasciata[1]
Lecithocladium excisum[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Comparative analysis of trophic structure and interactions of two tropical lagoons, M.C. Villanueva, P. Lalèyè, J.-J. Albaret, R. Laë, L. Tito de Morais and J. Moreau, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 197, Issues 3-4 , 25 August 2006, P. 461-477
♦ 3Lawson, E.O. and A.U. Olagundoye, 2011. Growth patterns, diet composition and sex ratios in giant african threadfin, Polydactylus quadrifilis from ologe lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria. Int. J. Agric. Biol., 13: 559–564
♦ 4Food composition and distribution of elasmobranches on the shelf and upper slope of the Eastern Central Atlantic., Patokina F.A., Litvinov F.F., ICES CM 2005/N:26
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0