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Atherina breviceps (Cape silverside)

Synonyms: Atherina parvipinnis; Hepsetia breviceps
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Cape silverside (Atherina breviceps) is a species of marine fish of the Atherinidae family. It is a brackish, freshwater, pelagic-neritic subtropical fish up to 11.0 cm maximal length. It is widespread in the southeastern Atlantic from Lüderitz in Namibia to northern Natal in South Africa.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve II 256073 Western Cape, South Africa  
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Americorophium triaeonyx[1]
Melita zeylanica[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Atractoscion aequidens (Trag)[2]
Lichia amia (leer fish)[1]
Phalacrocorax capensis (Cape cormorant)[3]
Pomatomus saltatrix (Tailor run)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1The Fish Community of the Swartvlei Estuary and the Influence of Food Availability on Resource Utilization, ALAN K. WHITFIELD, Estuaries Vol. 11, No. 3, p. 160-170 September 1988
♦ 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.
♦ 3SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF DIET IN THE CAPE CORMORANT OFF SOUTHERN AFRICA, DAVID CAMERON DUFFY, RORY PAUL WILSON, AND MARIE PIERRE WILSON, The Condor 89:830-834 (1987)
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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