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Sillaginidae
Trumpeter whiting
Sillago maculata
Thirty Centimeters Sillaginid Fish from Asian Waters
- Tropical
- Continental endemic
- Local endemic species
- Transcontinental
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Elongated
MediumTrumpeter whiting is a fish of Western Pacific. The species occupies coastal waters. Records give a maximum length of 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sillaginidae
- Genus
- Sillago
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: endemic to Australia. Records of this species from western Australia or northern Australia refer to Sillago burrus . Also very similar to Sillago aeolus from southeast Asia (Sunda Shelf). Occurrence in Tanzania (Ref. 2871 ) is probably a misidentification.
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