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Polydactylus
Sign in to savePolydactylus is a genus of threadfin that mainly are native to the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, especially in coastal or brackish waters (such as mangrove or estuaries). Some may even enter rivers and a single, P. macrophthalmus, is a freshwater fish from rivers in Borneo.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPolynemidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 183
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Polynemidae
- Collections
- UWFC, USNM, ECOSUR, CUMV, YPM, KU
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Trinidad And Tobago, Mexico, Indonesia, United States, Belize, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polynemidae
- Image
- Polydactylus microstomus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Polydactylus
- taxon name
- Polydactylus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Polydactylus
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Polydactylus is a genus of threadfin that mainly are native to the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, especially in coastal or brackish waters (such as mangrove or estuaries). Some may even enter rivers and a single, P. macrophthalmus, is a freshwater fish from rivers in Borneo.
Most species do not surpass in standard length, but two can reach up to .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polydactylus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.