Scientific Name	Pellona ditchela   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Valenciennes, 1847	Depth	10 - 55M
Chinese	庇隆多齒鰳	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鋸腹鰳科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F094　Pristigasteridae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	庇隆多齒鰳
Max Length	16 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	庇隆鰳、齒鰳
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	East
Habitats	Estuary、Coastal、Lagoon、Coral&Sand	Holotype Locality	Vishakhapatnam [Vizagapatam], India
Synonyms	Ilisha hoeveni, Ilisha hoevenii, Pellona ditcheli, Pellona ditchella, Pellona dithchela, Pellona hoeveni, Pellona hoevenii, Pellona natalensis
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；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	FRIP00027. FRIP00823. FRIP00824. FRIP00825. FRIP03161.
Common Name	Shad; Toothed shad; Ditchelee; Indian pellona; Herring
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body moderately deep, compressed; belly with usually 18 or 19 + 8 or 9, total 26 to 28 scutes, strongly keeled. Eye large, lower jaw projecting; and upper jaw with a toothed hypo-maxillary bone between hind tip of pre-maxilla and lower bulge of maxilla blade. short and thick. Gill rakers fairly; lower gill rakers on first gill arch 22 to 27. Dorsal fin origin near midpoint of body. Scales with upper and lower vertical striae slightly overlapping each other at center of scales. Head gold, snout and chin dusky; body dusky above, gold on flanks and silvery below; faint humeral spot present; dorsal and caudal fins with dark stippling, other fins pale.
habitats	Occurs in coastal areas, entering mangrove areas and estuaries, and freshwater as well, thus apparently fully euryhaline.
Distribution	Tropical Indo-West Pacific from western Gulf of Oman to Durban, South Africa, also Madagascar, Thailand, India to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Taiwan and to north- and southwestern Australia. It very rare and only found in southeastern Ta
Utility	Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted, boiled, or made into fishmeal or fishballs. Regarded as an excellent bait in the tuna fishery.