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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 beautiful fins, and is among the most attractive of the rainbowfishes.
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, known as ranwas in India is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a threadfin from the family Polynemidae which occurs in the Indian and western Pacific Ocean.
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The king threadfin is a large threadfin which can attain a maximum total length of 170 centimetres (67 in) and a maximum published weight of 45 kilograms (99 lb), although the more common total length is 48 centimetres (19 in). [1] It has a pointed snout and the dorsal profile of the head is almost flat in young fish and concave in adults.
A new study in the journal Frontiers in Toxicology found that microplastics in the fish we consume are far more widespread than you may think. In late December, researchers from Portland State ...
The doublewhip threadfin bream has the specific name nematophorus which means “thread bearer”, nematos meaning “thread” and phorus meaning “to bear”. This is a reference to the first pair of ray in the dorsal fin which are positioned very close to each other and fuse to create a long filament and the long filament growing from the upper lobe of the caudal fin.