FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Silver moony
Monodactylus argenteus
Monodactylidae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 27 cm
- Body shape
- Deep-bodied
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 613 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
Native
Lives wild in Australia, Cambodia, China, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Fiji, Guam, and 32 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Found in bays, mangrove estuaries, tidal creeks, and lower reaches of freshwater streams; occasionally in silty coastal reefs. It feeds on plankton and detritus. Commonly seen in large schools; small juveniles either solitary or in small aggregations. Usually only juveniles enter freshwater. Highly territorial. Caught with throw nets.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Chaetodon argenteus
- Monodachtylus argenteus
- Monodactylus argentues
- Psettus argenteus
- Psettus rhombeus
- Scomber rhombeus
In other languages
- Fingerfisk
- Månfisk
- Almindelig månefisk
- Kuukala
- Black bat fish, Butter bream, Buttercream, Butterfish, Diamond moonfish, Diamondfish, Finger fish, Fingerfish, Kitefish, Mono, Moonfish, Natal moonie, Natal moony, Sea kite, Silver and black butterflyfish, Silver batfish, Silver mono, Silver moonfish, Silver-batfish, Silvery moony, Singapore angelfish
Articles
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