Burmese River Ilisha

Body rather slender, belly with 24 to 25 + 10 or 11, total 34 to 36 scutes. Eye large, lower jaw projecting. Dorsal fin origin behind midpoint of body; anal fin origin below dorsal fin base. Swim bladder without a posterior tube (or tubes) passing backward into the body muscles. No toothed hypo-maxilla between hind tip of pre-maxilla and blade of maxilla.

Amphidromous. Refers to fishes that regularly migrate between freshwater and the sea (in both directions), but not for the purpose of breeding, as in anadromous and catadromous species. Sub-division of diadromous. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.Characteristic elements in amphidromy are: reproduction in fresh water, passage to sea by newly hatched larvae, a period of feeding and growing at sea usually a few months long, return to fresh water of well-grown juveniles, a further period of feeding and growing in fresh water, followed by reproduction there (Ref. 82692).

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 43 - 45

Occurs in rivers, reaching at least 650 km up the Irrawaddy, perhaps more. More data needed.

fisheries: subsistence fisheries