Diagnostic Description
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Body pinkish above, shading through pale mauve to silvery on ventral half with 4 or 5 longitudinal, upward-curved silvery-white stripes along the middle of each scale row below lateral line.
- Recorder
- Christine Marie V. Casal
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 7
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- Christine Marie V. Casal
Biology
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Inhabit sand and muddy bottoms (Ref. 9785).
- Recorder
- Christine Marie V. Casal
Importance
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fisheries: minor commercial; price category: high; price reliability: questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this genus
- Recorder
- Christine Marie V. Casal
分布
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分布於西太平洋區,由琉球群島,南至印尼東部。台灣分布於南部海域。
利用
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漁期全年皆有,可利用延繩釣、底拖網、定置網等漁法捕獲,肉質細嫩,適宜油煎、清蒸或煮薑絲湯,味道均美味可口。
描述
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體呈長紡錘形,側扁;頭端略尖,頭背呈弧形,兩眼間隔區不隆突。吻中大。眼大;眶下骨的後上角具無銳棘,下緣平滑,上緣不具前向棘。口中大,端位;上頜具3對犬齒,不呈水平突出;鋤骨、腭骨及舌面均不具齒。前鰓蓋後緣平滑,頰鱗
3列。第一鰓弓鰓耙數11-12。體被大櫛鱗。背鰭連續而無深刻,具硬棘
X,軟條9;臀鰭硬棘III,軟條
7;胸鰭中長,末端達肛門;腹鰭長,達臀鰭硬棘部;尾鰭上下葉先端呈圓形,均不呈絲狀延長。體色為桃紅色,愈近腹部體色愈淡,體側側線下方有5條向上彎曲之銀白色縱帶。背鰭為淡黃色,鰭膜末緣有一較深黃邊,基部有一條橘紅色縱帶;臀鰭淡色,有一條較深黃縱帶;尾鰭黃粉紅色,上葉末緣玫瑰紅色;餘鰭淡色。
棲地
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主要棲息於近海砂泥質的海域。肉食性魚類,主要捕食底棲性的甲殼類或是其它種類的小魚。