Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tun, Myo Min, 2021, A study on some commercial fishes of Nyaw-byin coastal water, Launglone Township, Tanintharyi region, Myanmar, International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies 9 (1), pp. 42-46 : 45

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.22271/fish.2021.v9.i1a.2386

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12666339

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Felipe

scientific name

Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL (Fig. I)

Body oval, deep and strongly compressed. Eye moderately large; mouth small and oblique. Anterior soft fin rays of both dorsal and anal fins elongated; posterior edge of dorsal and anal fins distinctly concave; caudal fin slightly emarginated; pelvic fin rudimentary or absent in adults. Color: adults bright silver, tip of dorsal and anal fins dusky; juveniles more colorful with yellow over most of the dorsal fin; tip of dorsal and anal fins black; anterior edge of anal fin with broad black margin; two vertical blacks bars over the head, one through the eye and the other in front pectoral-fin base.

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