Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Polynemidae > Polydactylus > Polydactylus macrochir

Polydactylus macrochir (Threadfin salmon; Tassel-fish; Striped tassel fish; Sheridan's threadfin; Longfinned threadfin; Kingfish; King threadfin; King salmon; Grand threadfin; Gold threadfin; Burnett salmon; Blink tassel-fish; Blind salmon)

Synonyms: Polydactylus sheridani; Polynemus macrochir; Polynemus sheridani
Language: French; Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  54.565 lbs (24.75 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  20 years
Migration [2]  Catadromous

Protected Areas

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

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratomyxa diamanti <Unverified Name>[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Diets 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)
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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