Leiognathus daura
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Description
24. Leiognathus daura (Cuvier, 1829)
Goldstripe ponyfish (Figure 25)
Material examined: 1 ex., 11.06.1992; New Digha; Reg. No. MARC /ZSI/F1711.
Description: D: VIII, 16; A: III, 14-15. Body rhomboid and compressed, the dorsal and ventral profiles about equally convex; snout somewhat blunt; mouth pointing downward when protracted. Colour of back greygreenish, belly silvery; black dots all over ventral half of body; a golden hue on dorsal half of body and on head; tip of snout black. Distal half of membrane between 2nd and 6th dorsal spines jet-black, lined above by creamy white, a broad yellow band over the lateral line, which disappears gradually on preservation; distal half of anal fin golden yellow from 2nd spine onward; outer margin of lower caudal fin lobe also yellow.
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden, along the coasts of India and Sri Lanka; including Pakistan, eastwards to the Philippines.
Remarks: The fish has a commercial value. Size: 14 cm.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MARC
- Event date
- 1992-11-06
- Verbatim event date
- 1992-11-06
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Leiognathidae
- Genus
- Leiognathus
- Species
- daura
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leiognathus daura (Cuvier, 1829) sec. Yennawar, Mohapatra & Tudu, 2017