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Gerres baconensis

(Scaly Snouted Silver-Biddy, Scaly Snouted Silver-Biddy)

Overview

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Family : Mojarras ;

Common Names

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Common Names in Austronesian (Other):

Amwit, Amwitio, Ninnen

Common Names in Carolinian:

Amwit, Amwitio, Ninnen

Common Names in English:

Scaly Snouted Silver-Biddy

Common Names in Japanese:

Ogasawara-Kurosagi

Common Names in Kapampangan:

Malakapas

Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:

培根銀鱸, 培根銀鱸, 培根银鲈

Common Names in Marshall:

Ilimek, Ilmok

Common Names in Marshallese:

Ilimek, Ilmok

Description

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Family Gerreidae

Distribution: most tropical seas . Chiefly marine . In brackish water occasionally; rare in freshwater . Very protractile mouth . Head scaly but with smooth upper surface. Dorsal and anal fins with a sheath of scales along base . Gill membranes not united to isthmus. Deeply forked tail; 24 vertebrae . Maximum length 35 cm, attained in Gerres filamentosus. Small silvery fishes with highly protrusible mouth. They feed by sorting benthic invertebrates from sand . Foodfishes. Assumed to be nonguarders (RF).The family Gerreidae belongs to the Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) and the Order Perciformes. It contains 8 genera and 40 species. It may be found in Marine, Brackish , and Freshwater environments and is primarily Marine. Members of this family are not used in the aquarium trade. Reproductively, most members of this family are nonguarders. The main mode of swimming of adult fish in this family is carangiform . Compared with other fish, the activity level of this family tends to be active . Etymology of this family name : Gerreidae: From Plinius, Latin, gerres, -es = a kind of anchovies

Habitat

Biome: Saltwater . Demersal .

Taxonomy

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Ambiguous Synonyms

  1. Gerres japonicus Bleeker, 1854
  2. Gerres macrosoma (non Bleeker, 1854)
  3. Gerres oyena (Forssk�l, 1775)

Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Gerres baconensis (Evermann & Seale, 1907)
  2. Xystaema baconensis Evermann & Seale, 1907

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Group expert : Woodland D.J., Data last modified by FishBase 04-Feb-2002

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Gerres

There are approximately 49 species in this genus:

G. ablongus · G. aprion · G. argyreus (Black-Tip Silverbelly) · G. baconensis (Scaly Snouted Silver-Biddy) · G. bispinosus · G. chrysops (Gold Sheen Silver-Biddy) · G. cinereus (Broad Mojarra) · G. cinerus · G. decacanthus (Small Chinese Silver-Biddy) · G. dovii · G. dowi · G. dowii · G. einereus · G. equulus (Japanese Silver-Biddy) · G. erythrourus (Deep-Bodied Mojarra) · G. fasciatus · G. filamentosus (Filamentous Mojarra) · G. gerres · G. infasciatus (Nonbanded Whipfin Mojarra) · G. japonicus · G. kapas (Ikolan) · G. kapaz · G. lefroyi · G. limbatus (Black-Tipped Mojarro) · G. lineatus · G. longirostris (Longtail Silverbiddy) · G. decacanthus · G. macracanthus (Long-Rayed Mojarra) · G. baconensis · G. macrostoma · G. maldivensis · G. marmoratus · G. methueni (Evenfin Pursemouth) · G. microphthalmus (Small-Eyed Whipfin Mojarra) · G. nigri (Guinean Striped Mojarra) · G. oblongus (Elongate Silver-Biddy) · G. ovatus · G. oyeana · G. oyena (Black-Tipped Silver-Biddy) · G. phaiya (Strong Spined Silver-Biddy) · G. philippinus · G. rhombus · G. richii · G. setifer (Black-Tipped Mojarro) · G. silaceus (Malayan Silver-Biddy) · G. simillimus · G. squamipinnis · G. subfasciatus (Common Silver Belly) · G. zebra

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

Identifiers

Last Revised: 2008-09-30