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The mojarras are a family, Gerreidae, of fish in the order Perciformes.The family includes about 53 species found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate regions. They mostly inhabit coastal salt and brackish waters, although some occur in fresh water.
Striped mojarra mainly feed on benthic invertebrates and zooplankton. [citation needed] It is a diurnal feeder, meaning that it hunts during the day to differentiate between edible and inedible objects. [citation needed] Gerreid fish are known to dig for buried invertebrates in the sediment of the water. They angle their head down and bite into ...
Gerres erythrourus the deep-bodied mojarra, also known as the short silverbiddy or short silverbelly, [3] is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Gerreidae, a mojarra. It is native to marine and brackish waters of coastal waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, far towards Vanuatu .
Gerres microphthalmus Iwatsuki, Seishi Kimura & Yoshino, 2002 (small-eyed whipfin mojarra) Gerres mozambiquensis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2007; Gerres nigri Günther, 1859 (Guinean striped mojarra) Gerres oblongus G. Cuvier, 1830 (slender silver-biddy) Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775) (common silver-biddy)
Diapterus auratus, the Irish mojarra or Irish pompano, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Gerreidae, the mojarras. Other common names for this species are the broad shad , silver perch and muttonfish .
G. filamentosus is known as whipfin silver biddy or long-rayed silver biddy in English, as blanche fil in French and as mojarra del hebra in Spanish. [1] Gerres methueni, striped silver biddy; Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775), also known as lined silver biddy and common silver biddy in English, as blanche commune in French and as mojarra común ...
The golden mojarra (Deckertichthys aureolus) [3] is a species of mojarra native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it is found from Costa Rica to the northern coast of Peru. This species grows to a length of 15 cm (5.9 in). This species is important to local peoples as a food fish. [2] It is the only known member of its genus. [3]
Diapterus auratus Ranzani, 1842 (Irish mojarra) Diapterus brevirostris ( Sauvage , 1879) (Shortnose mojarra) Diapterus peruvianus ( G. Cuvier , 1830) (Peruvian mojarra)