Thryssa nasuta, Estuarine thryssa

Thryssa nasuta (Castelnau, 1878)

Estuarine thryssa
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Engraulidae (Anchovies) > Coiliinae
Etymology: Thryssa: Greek, thrissa, -es = shad (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic; depth range 0 - 50 m (Ref. 189). Tropical; 7°S - 32°S, 112°E - 156°E (Ref. 189)

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Western Pacific: Australia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 13.8 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 189)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Anal soft rays: 34. This species possess the following characters: predorsal scutes 1; abdominal scutes are sharply keeled, prepelvic 14 + postpelvic 9 = 23; maxilla is relatively short, reaching to posterior border of preopercle; A 34 (iv,30); D 13; the uppermost pectoral-fin ray is not filamentous; teeth in jaws fine and conical, not canine-like; lower gill rakers 25 (Ref. 138904).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Presumed marine, pelagic, coastal, but also estuarine, thus tolerating lowered salinities. More data needed (Ref. 189).

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Gill, A.C., B.C. Russell and G.J. Nelson, 2018. F.L. de Castelnau’s Norman River fishes housed in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. Zootaxa 4459(3):565-574. (Ref. 138904)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 17 July 2017

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index
(Ref. 82804) 		PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight a=0.00708 (0.00310 - 0.01617), b=3.05 (2.86 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level
(Ref. 69278) 		3.4   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience
(Ref. 120179) 		High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (k=1.56).
Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 59153) 		Low vulnerability (19 of 100). 🛈