Gerres
| Gerres | |
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| G. equulus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gerreidae |
| Genus: | Gerres Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 |
| Type species | |
| Gerres vaigiensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
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Gerres is a genus of mojarras found mostly in coastal regions from the eastern Atlantic Ocean through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific. A single species, G. simillimus, is from the East Pacific. They mainly inhabit salt and brackish waters, but will enter fresh water. At least one species, Gerres cinereus (yellowfin mojarra), displays an ability akin to gyroscopic stability, allowing it to remain in a remarkably static spatial position relative to the water flowing around it.[1]
Species[]
The 28 currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- , & , 2007 (Japanese ten-spined silver-biddy)
- (Evermann & Seale, 1907) (scaly-snouted silver-biddy)
- Iwatsuki, Seishi Kimura & Yoshino, 1999 (gold sheen silver-biddy)
- (Walbaum, 1792) (yellowfin mojarra)
- (Bleeker, 1864) (small Chinese silver-biddy)
- Gerres equulus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 (Japanese silver-biddy)
- Gerres erythrourus (Bloch, 1791) (deep-bodied mojarra)
- Gerres filamentosus G. Cuvier, 1829 (whipfin silver-biddy)
- Iwatsuki & Seishi Kimura, 1998 (nonbanded whipfin mojarra)
- Bleeker, 1854 (Japanese silver-biddy)
- G. Cuvier, 1830 (saddleback silver-biddy)
- (Lacépède, 1801) (strongspine silver-biddy)
A strongspine silver-biddy Gerres longirostris.
- Bleeker, 1854 (longspine silverbiddy)
- Regan, 1902
- Regan, 1920 (Striped silver biddy)
- Iwatsuki, Seishi Kimura & Yoshino, 2002 (small-eyed whipfin mojarra)
- Iwatsuki & , 2007
- Gerres nigri Günther, 1859 (Guinean striped mojarra)
- Gerres oblongus G. Cuvier, 1830 (slender silver-biddy)
- Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775) (common silver-biddy)
- Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2001 (strong-spined silver-biddy)
- Iwatsuki, Seishi Kimura & Yoshino, 2007 (Ryukyu banded silver-biddy)
- & , 2009 (seven-banded silver-biddy)
- (F. Hamilton, 1822) (small Bengal silver-biddy)
- Iwatsuki, Seishi Kimura & Yoshino, 2007 (banded silver-biddy)
- Iwatsuki, Seishi Kimura & Yoshino, 2001 (Malayan silver-biddy)
- Regan, 1907
- Gerres subfasciatus G. Cuvier, 1830 (common silver belly)
References[]
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- ^ "Gyroscopically Stable fish". 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Gerres in FishBase. April 2013 version.
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