#2287 · 🐟 fish
American Gizzard Shad
🇳🇱 Draadvinnige elft ·Dorosoma cepedianum
📍 Colleyville, TX 76034, USA
📍 West Windsor Township, NJ, USA
📍 Hargis Creek Lake, Wellington, KS, USA
📍 Colleyville, TX 76034, USA
📍 Columbus, GA 31901, USA
📍 Harford County, MD, USA
📍 Outer Harbour, Toronto, ON, CA
📍 Washington County, MN, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Fishes of Texas team · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Quinn · CC BY 4.0
- 3. Colleyville, TX 76034, USA:© Todd Fitzgerald · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. West Windsor Township, NJ, USA:© thepigeongirl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Hargis Creek Lake, Wellington, KS, USA:© S. Queen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Colleyville, TX 76034, USA:© Todd Fitzgerald · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Columbus, GA 31901, USA:© e-a · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Harford County, MD, USA:© shmugrizzle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Outer Harbour, Toronto, ON, CA:© Andrew Sebastian · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Washington County, MN, USA:© Ivan · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Gizzard shad ( Dorosoma cepedianum ) is a member of the herring family of fish, and is native to large swaths of fresh and brackish waters of the United States of America. The adult has a deep body, with a silvery-green coloration above fading to plain silver below. The gizzard shad commonly resides in freshwater lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and streams but can reside in brackish waters, as it does on the Atlantic coast of the United States....
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,079 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Alexandre Lesueur in 1818 (208 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Gizzard Shad
- Nederlands
- Draadvinnige elft
- scientific name
- Dorosoma cepedianum
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Clupeiformes
- family
- Dorosomatidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,079
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1818 by Charles Alexandre Lesueur
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 99544, Wikidata Q2693645, GBIF 2413541, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.