Tenualosa reevesii, also known as Reeves shad, is a species of fish belonging to the family Dorosomatidae.

[2][3][4][5][6] Tenualosa reevesii was first described by John Richardson in 1846.

It can attain a maximum length of 61.6 cm (24.3 in) and a maximum weight of 5 kg (11 lb) and lives up to 8 years.

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.

[2] Mature adult Tenualosa reevesii ascend back to rivers to breed.