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Scientific Name: Coilia ramcarati (Hamilton, 1822)
English Name: Ramcarat grenadier anchovy
Local/Bangla Name: Boga olua (বগা অলুয়া), Boiragi (বৈরাগী)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Engraulidae
Description:
D1 II/11; D2 absent; P1 VI/6; P2 I/9; A+C127. Body color golden-brown with
dark pigmentation behind the gill opening; fins hyaline. Body compressed,
deepest under dorsal fin base, becoming keeled and more compressed
behind pelvic fin base, with six pre-pelvic and ten or eleven post-pelvic scutes.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Sundarbans Mangrove area
Environment:
Marine, Brakish
Other References:
Singha NK, Parvej MR, Uddin MS, Chowdhury SR (Eds. Uddin MS, Chowdhury SR) (2019) Bangladesh Samudrik O Upokolio Matsya Projatir Album (Species Album of Marine and Coastal Fisheries Researches of Bangladesh), Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, 264 p.
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.
