Scientific Name: Setipinna tenuifilis (Valenciennes, 1848)
English Name: Common Hairfin Anchovy
Local/Bangla Name: Fesa (ফেসা)
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Engraulidae
Description:
D1 I/3; D2 absent; P1 12; P 2 7; A 38. Color of back greenish black, flanks silvery dashed with gold. Dorsal and caudal fin margins dusky. Body fusiform, strongly compressed; abdomen sharply keeled with 17 to 21 pre-pelvic and 6 or 7 postpelvic scutes. Maxilla short, itstip truncate, not reaching the gill-opening. Dorsal-fin origin nearer to snout-tip than to caudal-fin base.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Sundarbans Mangrove area
Environment:
Marine
References:
Hossain MS, Chowdhury SR, Sharifuzzaman SM , Islam MM, Hasan J, Haque MA , Ali MZ, Hoq ME, Mahmud Y. Marine Fishes of Bangladesh (2020) Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute and Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Chattogram, 512pp.
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