Tenualosa reevesii, also known as Reeves shad, is a species of fish belonging to the family Dorosomatidae.
Description Tenualosa reevesii was first described by John Richardson in 1846. Tenualosa reevesii belongs to the genus Tenualosa. It can attain a maximum length of and a maximum weight of and lives up to 8 years.
Distribution and biology It is an euryhaline schooling fish, meaning it can survive freshwater, brackish and marine conditions and is pelagic-neritic, also is migratory and is anadromous and lives in tropical climate (31°N-5°N, 95°E-123°E) being found in waters off the coast of china up to the island of Phuket in the Andaman sea that lives between 0–50 m depth.
Reproduction Mature adult Tenualosa reevesii ascend back to rivers to breed.
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