Silver biddy

Silver biddies (singular: silver biddy), also spelled silver-biddies, is the name used to refer to bony fishes belonging to the family Gerreidae in the order Perciformes. They are also known as jerki (Sin) or mudro (Bal). Silver biddies are known as blanches in French and mojarras in Spanish.^[1]

Fishes in the family Gerreidae that include "silver biddy" in their common names include: ^[1]

• Gerres equulus, Japanese silver-biddy
• Gerres filamentosus or (Cuvier, 1829), also known as (Cuvier, 1830), (Munro, 1955) and (Bleeker, 1854). G. filamentosus is known as or in English, as in French and as in Spanish.^[1]
• ,
• Gerres oyena (Forsskål, 1775), also known as lined silver biddy and common silver biddy in English, as blanche commune in French and as mojarra común in Spanish.^[1]
• (Cuvier, 1829), also known as in English, in French and in Spanish.
• ,
• Gerres subfasciatus
• Pentaprion longimanus (Cantor, 1850), also known as in English, as in French and in Spanish.^[1]
• Parequula melbournensis or , a species similar to G. subfasciatus

See also[]

• Lutjanidae

References[]

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