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Alan Davidson

Twaite Shad

Alosa Fallax Nilotica Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

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#98Mediterranean Seafood
Mediterranean Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1981

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Family Chipeidae

* In full: dish tirsi, i.e. toothy shad, in distinction from karagôz tirsi, i.e. black-eyed shad (Alosa alosa). The alternative spelling is tersi.

REMARKS Maximum length 54 cm. Has half a dozen or so spots along the side. Fallax means false. The allis shad or true alose (Alosa alosa (Linnaeus)) lacks the spots and is not so common in the Mediterranean. Both enter rivers in the spring to spawn and the twaite shad may even live permanently in fresh water. Both are present, but not plentiful, in British waters.

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