Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Monodactylidae > Monodactylus > Monodactylus falciformis

Monodactylus falciformis (Cape moonfish; Cape moonie; Cape moony; Full moony; Moonfish; Batfish; Silver batfish; Kitefish; Fingerfish; Buttercream)

Synonyms: Monodactylus falciformes; Psettus commersonii; Psettus falciformis; Psettus orbicularis; Stromatoidea layardi
Language: Afrikaans; Danish; French; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Maranao/Samal/Tao Sug; Portuguese; Somali; Swahili

Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceano-estuarine

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

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Elops machnata (Whole sardine)[3]
Lichia amia (leer fish)[2]

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
♦ 2The 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
♦ 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.
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