Potamalosa

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| name = Australian freshwater herring

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Brooks, S. |author2=Butler, G. |author3=Gilligan, D. |author4=Raadik, T. |name-list-style=amp |year=2019 |title=Potamalosa richmondia |page=e.T98821820A123381878 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T98821820A123381878.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Potamalosa richmondia

| parent_authority = J. D. Ogilby, 1897

| authority = (W. J. Macleay, 1879)

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Potamalosa is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, which includes the anchovies, herrings and sprats. The only species in the genus is Potamalosa richmondia, the Australian freshwater herring. This species is endemic to eastern Australia where it lives in rivers, spawning in estuaries.