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Gerres oyena Common silver-biddy

Gerres oyenais commonly referred to as Common silver-biddy. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
7316 
AphiaID:
218535 
Scientific:
Gerres oyena 
German:
Mojarra, Silberling 
English:
Common Silver-biddy 
Category:
Mojarra 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Gerreidae (Family) > Gerres (Genus) > oyena (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Forsskål, ), 1775 
Occurrence:
Sudan, Kuwait, Djibouti, Hong Kong, (the) Maldives, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bahrain, Cambodia, China, Corea, East Africa, Egypt, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Gulf of Oman / Oman, India, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam 
Size:
7.87" - 11.81" (20cm - 30cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Algae, Aquatic plant, Detritus, Invertebrates, Isopods, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Worms, Zoobenthos 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2014-07-05 14:35:42 

Info

(Forsskål, 1775)

Gerres oyena is found along coasts, in saltwater lagoons, estuaries and over sand bottoms in sheltered waters near reefs.
The fish occurs solitär or in groups and feed on small organisms living on and in sandy bottoms.

Synonyms:
Diapterus kapas (Bleeker, 1851)
Diapterus oyena (Forsskål, 1775)
Gerreomorpha rostrata Alleyne & MacLeay, 1877
Gerres australis Castelnau, 1875
Gerres carinatus Alleyne & MacLeay, 1877
Gerres kapas Bleeker, 1851
Gerres oynea (Forsskål, 1775)
Gerres socotranus Steindachner, 1902
Gerres splendens De Vis, 1884
Labrus oeyena Forsskål, 1775
Labrus oyena Forsskål, 1775
Labrus öyena Forsskål, 1775
Smaris oyena (Forsskål, 1775)
Xystaema kapas (Bleeker, 1851)
Xystaema oyena (Forsskål, 1775)

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Gerreidae (Family) > Gerres (Genus)*

Scientific paper

  1. Research and Capacity Building for Sustainable Coastal Management || A Note on the Selection of Meiobenthic Prey by Gerres oyena in a Tropical Lagoon in Eastern Africa, Simon G. M. Ndaro and Emil Ólafsson, 1995

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Webpage Richard Field (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Copyright Andrej Ryanskiy, Foto: Bali, Indonesien
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Copyright J.E. Randall, Foto aus dem Roten Meer
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Copyright Richard Field, Foto aus Saudi Arabien
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