Sillaginidae
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Sillago parvisquamis |
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The Sillaginidae are slender schooling fish from the group of perch relatives (Percomorphaceae). They live in the western Indo-Pacific from South Africa to Japan and Australia in shallow water on the coasts in the sea and brackish water . The juvenile fish of some species also penetrate the fresh water of the estuaries. In Australia they are called "whitings". The name is used in other English-speaking countries for whiting , to which they are not related.
features
The Sillaginidae have an elongated body and a small mouth with few teeth. They have two dorsal fins , the first has 10 to 13 hard rays , the second one hard and 16 to 27 soft rays. The anal fin has two leading hard rays, followed by 14 to 26 soft rays. The scales are small and easily peel off the skin. In some species the swim bladder is absent , in other species it has a complex structure with many outgrowths. The fish are between 15 and 70 centimeters long.
species
There are 33 species in three genera. Two genera are monotypical .
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Sillaginodes Gill , 1861 .
- Sillaginodes punctatus ( Cuvier , 1829) .
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Sillaginopsis Gill, 1861
- Sillaginopsis panijus ( Hamilton , 1822) .
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Sillago Cuvier, 1816 .
- Sillago aeolus Jordan & Evermann , 1902 .
- Sillago analis Whitley , 1943 .
- Sillago arabica McKay & McCarthy, 1989 .
- Sillago argentifasciata Martin & Montalban , 1935 .
- Sillago asiatica McKay, 1982 .
- Sillago attenuata McKay, 1985 .
- Sillago bassensis Cuvier, 1829 .
- Sillago boutani Pellegrin , 1905 .
- Sillago burrus Richardson , 1842 .
- Sillago caudicula Kaga, Imamura & Nakaya, 2010 .
- Sillago chondropus Bleeker , 1849 .
- Sillago ciliata Cuvier, 1829 .
- Sillago flindersi McKay, 1985 .
- Sillago indica McKay, Dutt & Sujatha, 1985 .
- Sillago ingenuua McKay, 1985 .
- Sillago intermedius Wongratana, 1977 .
- Sillago japonica Temminck & Schlegel , 1843 .
- Sillago lutea McKay, 1985 .
- Sillago macrolepis Bleeker, 1859 .
- Sillago maculata Quoy & Gaimard , 1824 .
- Sillago megacephalus Lin , 1933 .
- Sillago microps McKay, 1985 .
- Sillago nierstraszi Hardenberg, 1941 .
- Sillago parvisquamis Gill, 1861 .
- Sillago robusta Stead , 1908 .
- Sillago schomburgkii Peters , 1864 .
- Sillago sihama ( Forsskål , 1775)
- Sillago sinica (Gao & Xue, 2011)
- Sillago soringa Dutt & Sujatha, 1982 .
- Sillago suezensis Golani et al., 2013 .
- Sillago vincenti McKay, 1980 .
- Sillago vittata McKay, 1985 .
swell
- Kurt Fiedler: Fish (= textbook of special zoology. Vol. 2: Vertebrates. Part. 2). Gustav Fischer, Jena 1991, ISBN 3-334-00338-8 .
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
- Sillaginidae on Fishbase.org (English)