Diagnostic Description
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Body elongate and moderately compressed; snout prominent; lower jaw slightly prominent, with one pair of larger canine teeth; remaining teeth set in narrow bands; edge of preopercle slightly serrate; lower branch of first gill arch with 14 to 16 gill rakers; body silvery; back metallic blue; flanks striped, sometimes indistinctly; fins pale with dark tips (Ref. 55763).
Trophic Strategy
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Found in shallow water, entering estuaries and river mouths. Forms schools. Feeds mainly on crustaceans and pelagic fishes.
- Recorder
- Drina Sta. Iglesia
Biology
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Found in shallow water, entering estuaries and river mouths (Ref. 9118). Forms schools (Ref. 9118). Feeds mainly on crustaceans and pelagic fishes (Ref. 9118).
- Recorder
- Cristina V. Garilao