Diagnostic Description
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
Swim bladder with a median anterior extension and very brown to rusty brown very narrow bars extending from the back obliquely forward to touch or almost touch a conspicuous silvery midlateral longitudinal stripe.
Life Cycle
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
Multiple spawners with synchronous development (Ref. 36823).
Migration
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
Oceanodromous. Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km.
Morphology
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
Dorsal spines (total): 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 17 - 19; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 16 - 18; Vertebrae: 32 - 34
Trophic Strategy
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
Occurs in inshore waters of the continental shelf (Ref. 75154).
Biology
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
Most common near weed banks and coral reefs in shallow-water, but not captured in shallow areas of southern waters. Oviparous (Ref. 205), and are multiple spawners with synchronous development (Ref. 36823). Associated with S. burrus, S. schomburgkii, and S. analis. The flesh is of excellent quality (Ref. 6205).
Importance
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الإنجليزية
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المقدمة من Fishbase
fisheries: minor commercial; price category: very high; price reliability: very questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this family
