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Harpadon nehereus (Bombay duck; Bumalo; Bummalow; Indian Bombay duck; Bombay-duck; Bombay duck fish; Bombay duck (India); Lizardfish; Indian bombay-duck)

Synonyms: Harpadon nahereus; Harpadon nebereus; Harpodon nehereus; Osmerus nehereus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Bombay duck or bummalo, Harpadon nehereus, (Bengali: bamaloh or loytta, Marathi: bombil, Sinhala: bombeli, Urdu: بمبل مچھلی) is, despite its name, not a duck but a lizardfish. Adults may reach a maximum length of 40 cm, but the usual size is around 25 cm.
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Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve 123722 Viet Nam  
Sanjay Gandhi National Park II 439343 Maharashtra, India
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

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♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2The Food and Feeding Habits of the Bombay Duck, Harpodon nehereus (Ham.) in the River Matlah (Bengal), T. V. R. Pillay, Proc. Nat. Inst. Sci. India, no. 19, p. 427-435 (1953)
♦ 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.
♦ 4FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS OF THE DEMERSAL FISHES OFF BOMBAY, C. SUSEELAN AND K.V. SOMASEKHARAN NAIR, 1969, Indian J. Fish. 16 : 56-74
♦ 5"Seasonal and Growth Variation of Feeding Habit of Conger Eel (Muraenesox cinereus) in East China Sea", ZHANG Ya-zhou, ZHU Wen-bin, LI Peng-fei, Journal of Zhejiang Ocean University (Natural Science) 2010-03
♦ 6Some aspects on the biology of Himantura bleekeri (Blyth) and Amphotistius imbricatus (Schneider) from Mumbai, SADASHIV GOPAL RAJE, Indian J. Fish., 54(2) : 235-238, Apr.-Jun., 2007
♦ 7Gibson, 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