Mugiloididae

Aubrey Nativity O. Yangzon

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 Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Osteichthyes
Taxonomy
Taxonomy Subclass Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Mugiloididae

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 • Torrent fish
Cheimarrichthys forsteri

Common • Weeverfishes or
sand-weevers
Taxonomy
Names Trachinus draco

• Sandperches
Diplectrum maximum

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 Family
Characteristics
Taxonomy

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 • Little commercial value
• Food
Importance • Fishmeal
Taxonomy

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 • Crustacean, plankton,
small fishes
Feeding Habit • Insect larvae
Taxonomy • Ambush predator

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 • Sexual dichromatism
• Protogynous
Reproduction Hermaphrodite
Taxonomy • Pelagic spawners

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 • Demersal
• Reef-associated
Ecology • Sandy substrata
Taxonomy • Amphidromous
(Torrentfish)

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 Distribution
Taxonomy

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 Philippines
Taxonomy
Species www.reefs.com

Parapercis altipinnis

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 Philippines
Taxonomy
Species www.reefs.com

Parapercis xanthozona

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 Philippines
Taxonomy
Species www.reefs.com

Parapercis cylindrica

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 Philippines
Taxonomy
Species www.reefs.com

Parapercis tetracantha

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 Philippine
Taxonomy
Species www.fishbase.com

Parapercis diplospilus

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 Trivia Trachinus draco

Taxonomy

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 • https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/www.independent.c
o.uk/news/uk/man-rushed-to-hospital-after-picking-up-
rare-poisonous-fish-on-welsh-beach-a7054676.html%
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• https://www.poppe-images.com/?t=17&photoid=95300
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• https://reefguide.org/pixhtml/yellowtailsandperch2.html
• https://www.poppe-images.com/?t=17&photoid=91562
References 1
• https://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/parapercis-alt
Taxonomy ipinnis-a-new-sandperch-from-the-philippines
• https://www.fishbase.de/country/CountrySpeciesSum
mary.php?c_code=608&id=59274
• http://www.divingisrael.com/en/secd/fish-and-corals-of
-the-Red-Sea/fish-the-Gulf-of-Eilat/Sandperch-Speckl
ed-sandperch-Parapercis-hexophtalma/
• https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?searc
h_topic=TSN&search_value=170955
• https://www.fishbase.de/summary/Diplectrum-formosu
m
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 • What species from this
Question(s) family is the largest?
Taxonomy

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