Overview
Family : Mojarras ;
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Gold Sheen Silver-Biddy
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
金點銀鱸
Description
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
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Bony Fishes
- Class:
Actinopterygii
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Ray-Finned Fishes
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Ray-Finned Fishes
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Perciformes
()
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- Order:
Perciformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Actinopterygii
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Group expert : Woodland D.J.
Similar Species
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
Bibliography
- Iwatsuki, Y., S. Kimura and T. Yoshino (1999). Description of Gerres chrysops sp.nov. from Thailand and redescription of Gerres setifer (Hamilton, 1822) and G. decacanthus (Bleeker, 1865) (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Ichthyol. Res. 4
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Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 8, 2006.
- FishBase
- FishBase 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 18, 2008.
- Woodland, David J. (from FishBase).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2825466
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-136640
- Fishbase Species ID: 55845
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 92142
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 645696
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 111146
