Coilia dussumieri

Coilia dussumieri, the goldspotted grenadier anchovy, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in coastal waters and estuaries in the tropical western Indo-Pacific region.

Goldspotted grenadier anchovy
Coilia dussumieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Clupeiformes
Family:
Engraulidae
Genus:
Coilia
Species:
C. dussumieri
Binomial name
Coilia dussumieri
(Valenciennes, 1848)[1]

Biology

It is a coastal and estuary fish species.They are saline water fish but also able to tolerate lowered salinity. They feeds on copepods, prawn and fish larvae, various unidentified crustaceans and cypris, also stomatopod larvae, mysids, polychaete larvae, isopods and Sagitta. they probably migrate estuary water for breeding purposes.[2]

Distribution

This species mainly found in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Also found on western Central Pacific (Thailand to Java).[3]

References
  1. "Coilia dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1848)". FishBase. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
  2. Coppola, S.R., W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, N. Scialabba and K.E. Carpenter, 1994. SPECIESDAB: Global species database for fishery purposes. User's manual. FAO Computerized Information Series (Fisheries). No. 9. Rome, FAO. 103 p.
  3. Rahman AKA (2005) Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd edition, Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, pp. 265-266.
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