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Polydactylus

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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.

Species

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyPolynemidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations recorded68,271

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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

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Encyclopedic overview

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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.