Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Clupeiformes > Family Alosidae > Genus Alosa

Alosa immaculata Bennett, 1835

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alosa*	Linck, 1790	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Alosa pontica*	(Eichwald, 1838)	synonym
*Clupea pontica*	Eichwald, 1838	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bulgarian: dunavska skumriya; dunаvskа skumriya; karagyoz; Дунавска скумрия sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: Black Sea herring; Black Sea shad; Kerch black sea shad; Kerch shad; Pontic shad sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: alose; alose de la Mer Noire sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Donauhering sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: alosa nerica sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: pontinė perpelė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: śledź czarnomorski sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Romanian: scrumbie de Dunare sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: донская сельдь; Сельдь черноморско-азовская проходная; черноморско-азовская проходная сельдь sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

Spanish, Castillian: alosa pontica; sábalo del Mar Negro sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: tirsi sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Оселедець чорноморсько-азовський; Оселедець чорноморсько-азовський прохiдний; Чорноморсько-азовський оселедець

Literature

original description	Bennett, E. T. (1835). [A letter...to the Secretary by Keith E. Abbott, Esq.,...a collection of skins of mammals and birds, and of preserved reptiles, fishes, and insects]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1835 (pt 3): 89-92. [Fishes on pp. 91-92.].
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Alosa immaculata Bennett, 1835. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272251

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Alosa immaculata Bennett, 1835. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/00c9d2d7-2765-4350-aa32-e35b6d0f6d11