Fish of the Alosa (river herrings) genus of the Alosinae (shads) subfamily of the Clupeidae family of the Clupeiformes order of the Clupeomorpha superorder.
(Agone. Photo by © Michel Roggo. roggo.ch)
Agone (Alosa agone) was first described in 1803 by the Italian physician and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723 – 1788). It is a freshwater pelagic species. The maximum recorded length is 42.6 cm, the maximum weight is 760 grams. It feeds on crustaceans, sometimes small fish.
(Agone. Photo by © Graziano Caramori. fishbase.org)
It is endemic of the following lakes: the Como, Garda, Orta, Lago Maggiore, Lugano and Iseo (northern Italy). It was stocked into the following lakes: the Bolsena, Bracciano and Vico (central Italy) as well.
Names of Agone (Alosa agone) in other languages are as follows:
Saboga (Spanish), Agone (Italian), Beneklitirsi balığı (Turkish), Alose feinte (French), Placka luganská (Czech).