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FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). [1] It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. [ 2 ] Over time it has "evolved into a dynamic and versatile ecological tool" that is widely cited in scholarly publications.
It is found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans from the Persian Gulf east to Australia and the Philippines. [2] This species occurs in coastal waters and in mangrove-lined lagoons as well as being recorded in estuarine areas and it has even entered freshwater. Living S. strongylura have been found alive and buried in mud during low tide. [1]
Silver-banded whiting for sale in the Philippines as 'asuhos' The silver-banded whiting shows the same basic body profile as the rest of the members of the genus Sillago, possessing an elongate, slightly compressed body tapering toward the terminal mouth, with two apparent dorsal fins.
Many species are threatened and some from the Philippines are already extinct. A survey carried out in 1992 only found three of the endemic Barbodes species, [1] and only two (Barbodes lindog and B. tumba) were found in 2008. [2] Several members of this genus were formerly included in Puntius. [3]
Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.
Acanthurus auranticavus was first formally described in 1956 by the American ichthyologist John Ernest Randall with its type locality give as Ataluyan Island in the Lagonoy Gulf off the eastern coast of Luzon in the Philippines. [2] The genus Acanthurus is one of two genera in the tribe Acanthurini which is one of three tribes in the subfamily ...
The humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis), also known as the panther grouper, (in Australia) barramundi cod, (in the Philippines, in Tagalog) lapu-lapung senorita, (in the Philippines, in Bisayan) miro-miro, (in Japan) sarasa-hata, (in India) kalava, and many other local names, [4] is a species of marine ray-finned fish.