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Tenualosa illsha (Hamilton, 1822) Clupea palasah Cuvier, 1829 The ilish ( Tenualosa ilisha ) ( Bengali : ইলিশ , romanized : iliś ), also known as the ilishi , hilsa , hilsa herring or hilsa shad , is a species of fish related to the herring , in the family Clupeidae .
Tenualosa is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Dorosomatidae, ... Tenualosa ilisha (F. Hamilton, 1822) (Hilsa shad) Tenualosa macrura ...
The ilish (Bengali: ইলিশ) or hilsha, also spelled elish (Tenualosa ilisha), is the national fish of Bangladesh. As it is anadromous in nature (an uncommon phenomenon in tropical waters), the ilish lives in the sea for most of its life, but migrates up to 1,200 km inland through rivers in the Indian sub-continent for spawning.
Shorshe ilish (Bengali pronunciation: [sorʃe iliʃ]) is a Bengali dish, native to the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, made from hilsa or Tenualosa ilisha, a type of herring, cooked in mustard gravy. [1] The dish is popular among the people of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak valley. [2] [3]
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Ilish (Tenualosa ilisha) is the national fish of Bangladesh [12] The vertebrate fauna includes about 1,600 species. Fishes hold the largest number of species among them. Of the 708 species of fishes, 442 are marine and the rests are of fresh and brackish waters. The marine fishes are split into 18 orders and 123 families.
Ilisha may refer to: Ilisha, a genus of fish; Tenualosa ilisha, a species of fish known by the common name ilisha This page was last edited on 28 February ...
The toli shad or Chinese herring (Tenualosa toli) is a fish of the family Clupeidae, a species of shad distributed in the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal to the Java Sea and the South China Sea. It may be found in Mauritius [2] and the Cambodian Mekong near the Vietnam border. [3]