Eastern keelback mullet

📖 Overview

Occurs in coastal and estuarine waters near river mouths, occasionally visiting upstream tidally influenced zones . Oviparous, eggs are pelagic and non-adhesive . Consumed locally in many places but likely not fished in commercial quantities . Used as food fish in Japan.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8 - 9; Vertebrae: 24. This species is distinguished by the following characters: hind tip of maxilla exposed when mouth is closed; head relatively small and flattened dorsally, head length 22-28% of SL; adipose eyelid is developed anteriorly and posteriorly covering part of iris; mid-dorsal line is sharply keeled; second vertebra with a pair of long, spine or antenna like neural postzygapophyse; stomach gizzard-like, with five unbranched pyloric caeca; transverse scales 11-13 (mode 12) rows; scales in lateral series usually 36-40; pectoral-fin usually with 17 rays; pectoral-fin length, 14-18% of SL, not reaching to level of first dorsal fin; supraneurals 3, the first between second and third vertebrae, second between fourth and fifth vertebrae, and third between fifth and sixth vertebrae; first pterygiophore of spinous dorsal fin positions in between sixth and seventh vertebrae .: fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Eastern keelback mullet is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

🥚 Reproduction

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic. Subtropical Northwest Pacific: Japan through the Ryukyus, Korea, China, Taiwan, to Vietnam (Ref.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

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