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(Ref. 103126) eElurikkus0 eElurikkus koondab ühte portaali Eesti eluslooduse andmed. http://elurikkus.ut.ee/ (Ref. 105471) FB-GeneralDescr-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-05-18 00:00:00 2024-05-27 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8051 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Occurs in estuaries and lower parts of the rivers at juvenile and immature adult stages in slow-running waters on sandy bottoms. Mature females stay on shallow marine bottoms; males are pelagic. Reproduction occurs offshore. Leptocephali migrate to the littoral to follow up with their growth. Feeds on fish and invertebrates, especially crustaceans (Ref. 57749). Minimum depth reported taken from Ref. 86942. Castle, P.H.J. 1986 Moringuidae. p. 187-188. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. (Ref. 5501) FB-DiagnosticDescr-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Frédéric Busson 2007-01-03 17:14:59 2007-01-22 13:47:15 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8051 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Body depth 36-51 times the total length (TL) . Head length 10-15 times TL. Dorsal and anal fins continuous with caudal, clearly behind the anus. Distances from snout to dorsal origin, from snout to anal origin and from snout to anus are 75%, 69% and 67% of TL, respectively. Small pectoral fins. 63 pores along the lateral line from head to anus. Adults all brown on the back and lighter on the belly; juveniles have an orange-yellow back and a bluish belly. Specimens in the rivers can reach 47 cm TL (Ref. 57749). Keith, P., G. Marquet, P. Valade, P. Bosc and E. Vigneux 2006 Atlas des poissons et des crustacés d'eau douce des Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Patrimoines naturels, 65:250p. (Ref. 57749) FB-Morphology-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Frédéric Busson 2007-01-03 17:14:59 2007-01-22 13:47:15 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8051 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Vertebrae: 105 - 113 Keith, P., G. Marquet, P. Valade, P. Bosc and E. Vigneux 2006 Atlas des poissons et des crustacés d'eau douce des Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Patrimoines naturels, 65:250p. (Ref. 57749) FB-Distribution-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-05-18 00:00:00 2024-01-11 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8051 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Indo-West Pacific: East Africa to Samoa, north to the Ryukyus, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef. Fricke, R. 1999 Fishes of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez): an annotated checklist, with descriptions of new species. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein, Theses Zoologicae, Vol. 31:759 p. (Ref. 33390) FB-TrophicStrategy-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2008-07-23 00:00:00 2008-08-13 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public microchir http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Occur in estuaries and lower parts of the rivers at juvenile and immature adult stages in slow-running waters on sandy bottoms. Mature females stay on shallow marine bottoms; males are pelagic (Ref. 57749). Burrowing species (Ref. 75154). Reproduction occurs offshore. Leptocephali migrate to the littoral to follow up with their growth. Feed on fish and invertebrates, especially crustaceans (Ref. 57749). Keith, P., G. Marquet, P. Valade, P. Bosc and E. Vigneux 2006 Atlas des poissons et des crustacés d'eau douce des Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Patrimoines naturels, 65:250p. (Ref. 57749) FB-Size-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-05-18 00:00:00 2024-05-27 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8051 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats 47.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 57749)) Keith, P., G. Marquet, P. Valade, P. Bosc and E. Vigneux 2006 Atlas des poissons et des crustacés d'eau douce des Comores, Mascareignes et Seychelles. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Patrimoines naturels, 65:250p. (Ref. 57749) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-8051 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-05-18 00:00:00 2024-05-27 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8051 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution reef-associated; brackish; marine; depth range 0 - 20 m (Ref. 41464) Allen, G.R. 1998 Reef fishes of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. In T. Werner and G. Allen (eds). A rapid biodiversity assessment of the coral reefs of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. RAP Working Papers 11, Conservation International, Washington, D.C. (Ref. 41464)