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Atherinomorus lacunosus (hardyhead silverside)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The hardyhead silverside (Atherinomorus lacunosus) is a silverside of the family Atherinidae, found in the Indo-Pacific near the surface. Its length is up to 25 cm. The species now also occurs in the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.
View Wikipedia Record: Atherinomorus lacunosus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Predators

Plectropomus leopardus (bluedotted coraltrout)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Atherinicus cornutus[1]
Bivesiculoides fusiformis[2]
Ectenurus trachuri[2]
Neoechinorhynchus dimorphospinus[1]
Sphaerospora mayi[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0