Spotted hardyhead

Craterocephalus mugiloides

Fish Reaching Seven Centimeters in the Eastern Indian Ocean

Spotted hardyhead is known from Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Central Pacific as a fish. Records give a maximum length of 7 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Silversides
Family: Atherinidae
Genus: Craterocephalus
Maximum length: 7 cm
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Central Pacific: northern Australia, from Western Australia to Fraser Island, around the islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and northeast Queensland.

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