Alosa volgensis (Berg, 1913)
Volga shad, волжская сельдь
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Clupeonella caspia volgensis Berg, 1913
Conservation Status
Extinct (Ford, 2024a; Freyhof et al., 2025:62)
Last record: 1900's (Freyhof et al., 2025:62); c.2000 (Ford, 2024a); 2016 (questionable) (Ford, 2024a)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Kazakhstan & Russia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Berg, Lev S. (1913). Herrings captured during the 1912 expedition along the western bank of the Caspian Sea. Materialy k Poznaniyu Russkago Rybolovstva 2 (3): 1-50, Pls. 1-14. [In Russian]
Other references:
Dyldin, Y. V., Orlov, A. M., Hanel, L., Romanov, V. I., Fricke, R. and Vasil’eva, E. D. (2022). Ichthyofauna of the Fresh and Brackish Waters of Russia and Adjacent Areas: Annotated List with Taxonomic Comments. 1. Families Petromyzontidae - Pristigasteridae. Journal of Ichthyology 62(3): 1-30.
Esmaeili, H. R., Sayyadzadeh, G., Eagder, S. and Abbasi, K. (2018). Checklist of Freshwater Fishes of Iran. FishTaxa 3(3): 1-95.
Ford, M. (2024a). Alosa volgensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T135559A102879718. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T135559A102879718.en. Accessed on 01 June 2025.
Ford, M. (2024b). Alosa volgensis (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T135559A225523386. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T135559A225523386.en. Accessed on 01 June 2025.
Freyhof, Jörg and Brooks, Emma G. E. (2011). European Red List of Freshwater Fishes. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. viii + 60 pp. https://doi.org/10.2779/85903
Freyhof, Jörg, Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran, Jouladeh-Roudbar, Arash and Kaya, Cüneyt. (2025). Handbook of Freshwater Fishes of West Asia. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111677811 [p. 62]
Jouladeh-Roudbar, A., Ghanavi, H. R. and Doadrio, I. (2020). Ichthyofauna from Iranian freshwater: Annotated checklist, diagnosis, taxonomy, distribution and conservation assessment. Zoological Studies 59(21): 1-303.
Kottelat, M. and Freyhof, J. (2007). Handbook of European freshwater fishes. Cornol, Switzerland, Publications Kottelat: i-xiii + 1-646.
Podolyako, S. A., Fedorovich, V. V. and Litvinov, K. V. (2017). Fishes of the Astrakhan Nature Reserve: an updated checklist with comments of recent records. Zoosystematica Rossica 26(1): 182-195.
Vardakas, Leonidas, Perdikaris, Costas, Freyhof, Jörg, Zimmerman, Brian, Ford, Matthew, Vlachopoulos, Konstantinos, Koutsikos, Nicholas, Karaouzas, Ioannis, Chamoglou, Maria and Kalogianni, Eleni. (2025). Global Patterns and Drivers of Freshwater Fish Extinctions: Can We Learn From Our Losses? Global Change Biology 31(5): e70244. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70244