Agonostomus telfairii
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Mugiliformes |
| Family: | Mugilidae |
| Genus: | Agonostomus |
| Species: | A. telfairii
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| Agonostomus telfairii E. T. Bennett, 1832
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Agonostomus telfairii, the fairy mullet, is a species of fish in the family Mugilidae, the mullets. It is known by the common name fairy mullet.[2][3] It is native to the islands off the eastern coast of Africa, where it can be found in freshwater bodies and estuaries in Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, and Réunion.[2][3] It returns to the sea to spawn.[3]
This species grows to a length of 75 centimetres (30 in) TL and is of minor importance to commercial fisheries.[3] The specific name honours the Irish botanist and ship's surgeon Charles Telfair (1778-1833), who is known to have made a botanical and zoological collection in Mauritius in 1810 which included the type of this species.[4]
References
- ^ Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Agonostomus telfairii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T697A3136689. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T697A3136689.en.
- ^ a b Stiassny, M. 1996. Agonostomus telfairii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 13 April 2015.
- ^ a b c d Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. Agonostomus telfairii. FishBase. 2015.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (4 June 2018). "Mugiliformes". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
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