Animalia > Chordata > Clupeiformes > Engraulidae > Thryssa > Thryssa mystax

Thryssa mystax (Mustached thryssa; Mustached anchovy; Moustached thryssa; Gangetic anchovy; Anchovy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Moustached thryssa (Thryssa mystax), also known as Gangetic anchovy, is a species of oceanodromousray-finned fish in the family Engraulidae. It is found in the tropical western Indo-Pacific region from India, Sri Lanka to Myanmar and south to Java, and Indonesia.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceano-estuarine

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shankou Mangrove Wetland Reserve 19768 Guangxi, China  

Prey / Diet

Chanos chanos (Bandang)[2]
Palaemon styliferus (roshma prawn)[2]

Predators

Istiophorus platypterus (Atlantic sailfish)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Baccigeroides cochinensis[4]
Contracaecum vittati <Unverified Name>[4]
Erilepturus hamati[4]
Opisthomonorcheides simhai[4]
Parahemiurus engraulisi[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Dietary composition of the sailfish Istiophorus platypterus (Shaw & Nodder, 1792) from Parangipettai, southeast coast of India, V. Ravi and V. Sekar, J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, 52 (1) : 102 - 104, January - June 2010
♦ 4Gibson, 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