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Found in coastal waters (Ref. 30573), enters estuaries and able to tolerate quite low salinities (7 ppt). Feeds chiefly on phytoplankton (mainly diatoms, also dinoflagellates), but also copepods, molluscan and crustacean larvae, prawns, amphipods and polychaetes. Spawns (at least in Godavari estuary) around February (Ref. 188). Marketed fresh, dried, dried-salted and boiled. Made into fish balls. Found in the basin-wide mainstream of the lower Mekong (Ref. 36667).
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Exocoetus monocirrhus Richardson, 1846
Barbel flyingfish |
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Huso huso (Linnaeus, 1758)
Beluga |
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Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (Rüppell, 1838)
Network pipefish |
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Channomuraena vittata (Richardson, 1845)
Broadbanded moray |
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Lycodichthys antarcticus Pappenheim, 1911 |