Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Sillaginidae > Sillago > Sillago maculataSillago maculata (Banded whiting; Blotchy sillago; Diver whiting; Eastern winter whiting; Sand borer; Spotted asohos; Spotted whiting; Trumpeter sillago; Trumpeter whiting; Trumpter sillago; Western winter whiting; Winter whiting; Silver sillago)Synonyms: Sillago gracilis; Sillago maculata maculata; Sillago maculate Language: Bikol; Cebuano; Davawenyo; French; Hiligaynon; Ilokano; Japanese; Javanese; Kagayanen; Korean; Kuyunon; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Swahili; Tagalog; Vietnamese; Waray-waray The trumpeter whiting, Sillago maculata, (also known as the winter whiting or diver whiting) is a common species of coastal marine fish of the smelt-whiting family, Sillaginidae. The trumpeter whiting is endemic to Australia, inhabiting the eastern seaboard from southern New South Wales to northern Queensland. The species is found in bays, estuaries, coastal lakes and mangrove creeks on silty and muddy substrates in waters ranging from 0 to 30 m deep, occasionally inhabiting sandy and seagrass beds. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Feeding ecology of the piscivorous birds Phalacrocorax varius, P. melanoleucos and Sterna_her i in Moreton Bay, Australia: diets and dependence on trawler discards, S. J.M. Blaber and T.J. Wassenberg, Marine
Marine Biology 101, 1-10(1989) ♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 3Species 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
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