World Species : Eleutheronema tetradactylum (White salmon; Threadfin; Kingfish; King fish; Indian salmon; Horse's friend; Giant threadfin; Fourfinger-threadfin; Four-finger threadfin; Fourfinger threadfin; Four thread tassel fish; Four tasselfish; Four finger thread fin; Cooktown salmon; Colonial salmon; Burnett salmon; Blunt-nosed salmon; Bluenose salmon; Blue threadfin; Blue salmon; Blind tassel-fish; Blind tasselfish; Bastard mullets; Bamin; Thread fin; Tassel-fish; Row ball; Rockhampton salmon; Rockhampton kingfish; Tassel fish; Giant tasselfish)

Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Polynemidae > Eleutheronema > Eleutheronema tetradactylum

Eleutheronema tetradactylum (White salmon; Threadfin; Kingfish; King fish; Indian salmon; Horse's friend; Giant threadfin; Fourfinger-threadfin; Four-finger threadfin; Fourfinger threadfin; Four thread tassel fish; Four tasselfish; Four finger thread fin; Cooktown salmon; Colonial salmon; Burnett salmon; Blunt-nosed salmon; Bluenose salmon; Blue threadfin; Blue salmon; Blind tassel-fish; Blind tasselfish; Bastard mullets; Bamin; Thread fin; Tassel-fish; Row ball; Rockhampton salmon; Rockhampton kingfish; Tassel fish; Giant tasselfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Eleutheronema tetradactylum, also known as Fourfinger threadfin, Indian Salmon, Blue threadfin, or Rawas, is a threadfin fish of the Polynemidae family. This highly commercial fish known for uses in aquaculture occur mainly over shallow muddy bottoms in coastal waters forming loose schools. Adults of this highly vulnerable species enter rivers during winter. Adults feed on prawns and fish with occasional polychaetes, while juveniles feed on prawns shrimps and mysids.

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Migration ^[1]

Amphidromous

Protected Areas

Name	Area acres	Location
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve	123722	Viet Nam
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site		Queensland, Australia
Sunderban National Park	261613	India

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Crocodylus porosus (Saltwater crocodile)	^[3]
Mycteria cinerea (Milky Stork)	^[4]

Consumers

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External References

Citations

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♦ ¹Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ ²Diets of piscivorous fishes in a tropical Australian estuary, with special reference to predation on penaeid prawns, J. P. Salini, S. J. M. Blaber and D. T. Brewer, Marine Biology 105, 363-374 (1990)
♦ ³Jorrit 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.
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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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