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Scientific Name: Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen, 1788)
English Name: Chinese pomfret, Chinese silver pomfret, Grey pomfret
Local/Bangla Name: Rup Chanda (রুপচান্দা), Chinese Rupchanda (চাইনিজ রুপচান্দা)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Stromateidae
Description:
D1 46; D2 absent; P1 25; P 2 absent; A 43. body grey brown on back, merging to silvery white towards belly. Fins dusky. Body very deep and compressed. Eye with narrow adipose lid. Small teeth in a single row in both jaws. Single dorsal fin; dorsal and anal fins not falcate. No spines before the median fins. Caudal fin emarginate, slightly forked in adults.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Inshore, demersal on the continental shelf over muddy bottoms; sometimes enters estuaries.
Environment:
Marine, Brackish (Benthopelagic; amphidromous)
Other References:
Hussain MM (1970) The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of North East part of the Bay of Bengal. Scientific Researches. East Regional Laboratories, Dhaka. 52.
Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
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