Scientific Name	Hilsa kelee   Pronounce			No picture was not be chosen to represent this species.
Author	(Cuvier, 1829)	Depth	0 - 10M
Chinese	花點鰣	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鯡科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F097　Clupeidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	花點鰣
Max Length	30 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	中國鰣
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	PonFu
Habitats	Ocean、Estuary、Coastal、Lagoon、 Coral&Sand	Holotype Locality	Vizagapatam [Vishakhapatnam, India, Bay of Bengal, eastern Indian Ocean]
Synonyms	Alausa brachysoma, Alausa kanagurta, Alosa brevis, Alosa malayana, Clupea durbanensis, Clupea kanagurta, Clupea kelee, Clupea platygaster, Clupea sinensis, Clupeonia blochii, Harengula zeylanica, Hilsa kanagurta, Hilsa kanakurta ...all 18..
Reference	臺灣脊椎動物誌(1985)；中國動物誌-鱘形目；海鰱目；鯡形目及鼠鱚目(張, 2001)  Whitehead, P. J. P. 1985 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 張世義 編著 2001
Specimen List
Common Name	Five-spot herring; Kelee; Flat herring; Hilsa herring; Kelee shad; Five spot herring
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	A moderate-sized herring-like species with fairly deep and strongly compressed body, abdomen with sharply-keeled 15 to 17 prepelvic and 12 to 14 postpelvic scutes. Mouth terminal; upper jaw with a distinct median notch or cleft when seen from front. Opercle smooth, without bony striae. Gill rakers fine and numerous (about 100 to 175 for fish 7.5 to 23.5 cm of standard length. Vertical striae on scales overlapping at centre of scale; scales fimbriated and with small perforations posteriorly. Scales moderate, lateral scales 39 to 44. A series of small triangular scales above axil of pectoral fins. Body back blue-green, flanks silvery; a black spot behind gill cover, usually followed by up to 10 spots along flank.
habitats	Found in coastal waters, enters estuaries and able to tolerate quite low salinities. Feeds chiefly on phytoplankton, but also copepods, molluscan and crustacean larvae, prawns, amphipods and polychaetes. Spawns around February.
Distribution	Distributed in Indo-West Pacific; probably all coasts of Indian Ocean, from Gulf of Oman and Gulf of Aden south to Transkei, South Africa and Madagascar, across the Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Thailand, Java Sea and north to South China Sea and east to Papua N
Utility	Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted and boiled. Made into fish balls.