| Specimen ID | 39440 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Alosa |
| Species | sapidissima |
| Common Name | American Shad |
| State | NY |
| Locality | Lake Ontario |
| Mapping Accuracy | Centroid |
| Centroid Type | |
| HUC8 Name | Lake Ontario |
| HUC8 Number | 04280002 |
| Map | |
| Collection Year | 1931 |
| Year Accuracy | Actual |
| Potential Pathway | stocked for food |
| Status | extirpated |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 98 |
| Author: | Smith, C.L. |
| Date: | 1985 |
| Title: | The inland fishes of New York State. |
| Publisher: | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation |
| Pages: | 522 pp |
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| Reference 2 |
| Ref. Number: | 134 |
| Author: | Miller, R.R. |
| Date: | 1957 |
| Title: | Origin and dispersal of the alewife Alosa pseudoharengus, and the gizzard shad, Dorosoma cepedianum, in the Great Lakes. |
| Journal: | Transactions of the American Fisheries Society |
| Volume: | 86 |
| Issue: | 1956 |
| Pages: | 97-111 |
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| Reference 3 |
| Ref. Number: | 135 |
| Author: | Radforth, I. |
| Date: | 1944 |
| Title: | Some considerations on the distribution of fishes in Ontario. |
| Journal: | Contributions to the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Pages: | 1-116 |
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| Comments | Last report from Lake Ontario but still occurs in the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers and stragglers may occasionally reach the lake. |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
