Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Gerreidae > Gerres > Gerres oyena

Gerres oyena (glined silverbelly; Slenderspine pursemouth; Slender silverbelly; Slender silver belly; Shining silver-belly; Oyena mojarra; Oceanic silver biddy; Longtail silverbiddy; Darnley Island silverbelly; Common silvery-biddy; Common silver-biddy; Common silverbiddy; Common silver biddy; Common mojarra; Blacktip mojarra; Blacktip silverbiddy; Black-tipped silver-biddy; Mojarra; Silver-biddy; Oceanic silver-biddy)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The common silver-biddy (Gerres oyena) is a species of mojarra native to marine and brackish waters of coastal waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. It inhabits estuaries, coastal waters and lagoons. This species can reach a length of 30 cm (12 in), though most do not exceed 20 cm (7.9 in). This species is important to local commercial fisheries.
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Infraspecies

Labrus oyena oyena

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[1]
Hiatula lunulata[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Gerres filamentosus (Filamentous mojarra)1
Gerres longirostris (Strongspine silver-biddy)1
Gerres methueni (Evenfin pursemouth)1

Predators

Alburnus alburnus (Bleak)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Haplorchis yokogawai[3]
Heterophyopsis expectans[3]
Polylabris gerres[3]
Pseudohaliotrema sphincteroporus[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.
♦ 2THE FEEDING ECOLOGY OF GERREIDAE (TELEOSTEI) IN THE KOSI SYSTEM, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR SEASONAL DIET, D.P. Cyrus and S.J.M. Blaber, The Lammergeyer 32, January 1984, p. 35-49
♦ 3Gibson, 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