Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775) Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Colour pattern : Woodland, 2001 .
  • Common names : Slankstekel-plooibek (Afrikaans), Badh ar-rayash / Badha / Bedhah / Musallakh / Mussalakh (Arabic), Black-tip silverbelly / Black-tipped silver-biddy / Blacktip mojarra / Blacktip silverbiddy / Common mojarra / Common silver biddy / Common silver-biddy / Common silverbiddy / Longtail silverbiddy / Mojarra / Mojarras / Oceanic silver biddy / Oyena mojarra / Pacific silver-biddy / Shining silver-belly / Silver-biddy / Slender silver belly / Slender silverbelly / Slenderspine pursemouth (English), Blanche commune / Breton / Breton blanc (French), Melanuria comum (Portuguese), Mojarra comun (Spanish), Chaa (Swahili: Kenya / Tanzania) .
  • Current distribution known : found along the east coast of Africa (possibly including the Seychelles) to the Red Sea and the "Gulf"; also along the south-eastern coasts of India and around Sri Lanka. Elsewhere extending to the Western Pacific .
  • Distribution_references : Woodland, 2001 .
  • Food habits / trophic level : feeds on small organisms living on sandy bottoms .
  • Food habits / trophic level_references : Woodland, 2001 .
  • Habitat / home range : common along sandy beaches but also said to enter estuaries and brackish lagoons .
  • Habitat_references : Bianchi, 1985 | Eccles, 1992 | Sommer et al., 1996 | Woodland, 2001 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Woodland, 2001 .
  • Size : 300 mm TL .
  • Types :
    • Labrus öyena Forskäl, 1775: 35. Type locality: "Sues or Djiddae". Holotype ZMUC n° 15 a.