Biology:Sillago suezensis
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Short description: Species of fish
| Sillago suezensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Spariformes |
| Family: | Sillaginidae |
| Genus: | Sillago |
| Species: | S. suezensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Sillago suezensis Golani, R. Fricke & Tikochinski, 2013
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Sillago suezensis is a species of marine fish in the smelt-whiting family Sillaginidae. It is found in western Indian Ocean and in the northern Red Sea including the Gulf of Suez. Following its first record in the Mediterranean Sea, off Lebanon in 1977,[1] it experienced a population explosion in Levantine waters where it is now very common and reaches to the Aegean Sea.[2] This species reaches a length of 18.5 cm (7.3 in).[3]
References
- ↑ Mouneimne N. 1977. Liste des poissons de la côte du Liban (Méditerranée orientale). Cybium , 1: 37-66.
- ↑ Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Sillago suezensis). 2nd Edition. 2021. 366p. CIESM Publishers, Paris, Monaco.https://ciesm.org/atlas/fishes_2nd_edition/Sillago_suezensis.pdf
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Sillago suezensis" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q20745687 entry
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