FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Squaretail mullet
Ellochelon vaigiensis
Mugilidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 63 cm
- Body shape
- Streamlined
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 5,276 liters
- Diet
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Behavior
- Temperament
- Missing
- Swims
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Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in American Samoa, Australia, Bahrain, Cambodia, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Djibouti, and 36 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Found in lagoons, reef flats, estuaries, and coastal creeks, in shallow coastal areas and protected sandy shores. Usually within tidal influence, but may enter fresh water, ascending 10 km into rivers. Forms large schools, frequently in mangrove areas. Juveniles may be found in rice fields and mangroves and may be used as bait fish. Oviparous, eggs are pelagic and non-adhesive. Feeds on phytoplankton, small algae and detritus organisms. Caught in cast nets, stake nets, beach seines, and gill nets; marketed fresh and salted; boiled (Thailand), canned or frozen (Australia). Roe also marketed salted and juveniles used as bait fish..
Other names
Other scientific names
- Chelon vaigiensis
- Liza parmata
- Liza vaigensis
- Liza vaigiensis
- Mugil delicatus
- Mugil macrolepidotus
In other languages
- Halekantet multe
- Blackfin mullet, Diamond scale mullet, Diamond-scale grey mullet, Diamond-scale mullet, Diamond-scaled grey mullet, Diamond-scaled mullet, Diamondscale mullet, Grey Mullet, Large scale mullet, Large-scale finned mullet, Long-scaled mullet, Mullet, Square-tail mullet, Super-tail mullet, Yellowtail mullet
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