TaiBNET

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Clupeiformes
Family Engraulidae
Genus Thryssa
Thryssa setirostris (Broussonet, 1782)

Provider:

Kwang-Tsao Shao

Synonyms：

Clupea mystacina, Clupea seticornis, Clupea setirostris, Engraulis setirostris, Scutengraulis setirostris, Thrissa setirostris, Thrissocles setirostris, Thryssa macrognathos

Citation:

臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993);

中國動物誌-鱘形目;

海鰱目;

鯡形目及鼠鱚目(張, 2001)

Character:

Body fairly compressed, snout bluntly rounded; abdomen with 16 to 18 prepelvic and 9 or 10 postpelvic scutes; total 25 to 28 scutes. Maxilla very long (increasing with size of fish), reaching posteriorly at least to tip of pectoral fins, usually to pelvic-fin base, or even to anal-fin origin. Teeth small or minute, not canine-like. Lower gill rakers on first gill arch 10 to 12. Head with gold tints over pale blue; body silver white, bluish grey above; a diffuse patch of horizontal wavy grey or charcoal lines on shoulder posterior to upper part of gill opening; dorsal and caudal fins dusky to deep yellow, borders charcoal; anal fin deep yellow or white; pectoral and pelvic fins pale yellow.

Habitat:

Presumably schooling occurring mostly close inshore and entering bays and estuaries. Feeds mainly on crustaceans (amphipods, zoae larvae, Acetes).

Distribution:

Commonly distributed in tropical and subtropical coastal waters of Indo-West Pacific from Gulf of Oman south to Port Alfred, no records from the Red Sea and Madagascar; coasts of Pakistan, India, probably Burma; Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines to Taiwan;

Utility:

Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted, or made into fish meal, fish sauce, or fish balls.

Name Code:

380985

IUCN Red List:LC

Marine