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The threadfin rainbowfish or featherfin rainbowfish (Iriatherina werneri) is a rainbowfish, the only species in the genus Iriatherina. It is characterized by long ...
Ranging in length from 11 cm (4.5 in) in the dwarf threadfin (Parapolynemus verekeri) to 2 m (6.6 ft) in fourfinger threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) and giant African threadfin (Polydactylus quadrifilis), threadfins are both important to commercial fisheries as a food fish, and popular among anglers. Their habit of forming large schools ...
Eleutheronema tetradactylum, the fourfinger threadfin, ... (6.6 ft), although 50 centimetres (20 in) is a more normal size. [2] Distribution
Also known as golden wrasse, golden rainbowfish, and canary wrasse; scientific name halichoeres chrysus. Maximum length: 5.5 inches Wild habitat: Australia, Indonesia.
A slot limit is a tool used by fisheries managers to regulate the size of fish that can legally be harvested from particular bodies of water. Usually set by state fish and game departments, the protected slot limit prohibits the harvest of fish where the lengths, measured from the snout to the end of the tail, fall within the protected interval. [1]
Bleher's rainbowfish: Chilatherina bleheri: 12 cm (4.7 in) Red rainbowfish: Glossolepis incisus: 9–13 cm (3.5–5.1 in) Almost all rainbowfish species are bred in captivity and wild populations may be protected. [66] Threadfin rainbowfish: Iriatherina werneri: 3–4 cm (1.2–1.6 in) New Guinea rainbowfish: Melanotaenia affinis: 13 cm (5.1 in)
Otherwise, an option would be to leave it at "size", but with a footnote from where it says "size" in the header, that indicates that it is "size at maturity". --Tryptofish 17:56, 12 December 2017 (UTC) Fishbase tends to list maximum size, with question marks for size at maturity.
These fishes vary in size from the redfin dwarf monocle bream (Parascolopsis boesemani), with a maximum published standard length of 17 cm (6.7 in), to the monogrammed monocle bream (Scolopsis monogramma) which has a maximum published total length of 38 cm (15 in).