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Engraulidae
longjaw thryssa
Thryssa setirostris
Fish Reaching Eighteen Centimeters in Indo Pacific
Thryssa setirostris, the longjaw thryssa, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Thryssa
- Maximum length
- 18 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: India Ocean from Gulf of Oman south to Port Alfred, but no records from the Red Sea and Madagascar; coasts of Pakistan, India and probably Burma; Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines to Taiwan (Ref. 189 ), including Arafura Sea (Ref. 9819 ); also northern Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and New Hebrides (Ref. 189 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

