Hardyhead silverside
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| Species: | A. lacunosus
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| Atherinomorus lacunosus (J. R. Forster, 1801)
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The hardyhead silverside (Atherinomorus lacunosus) is a silverside of the family Atherinidae, found in the Indo-Pacific near the surface. Its length is up to 25 cm. The species now also occurs in the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.[1]
References
- ^ Rodríguez, G.; Suárez, H. (2001). "Anthropogenic dispersal of decapod crustaceans in aquatic environments". Interciencia. 26 (7): 282–288.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Atherinomorus lacunosus". FishBase. May 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8