Pomadasys argyreus

Diagnostic characters. Fin Formula: D-XII, 13; P 1 - I, 14; P 2 - I, 5; A-III, 7 Body ovate, laterally compressed, depth 2.4 in standard length; head blunt, upper profile convex; mouth small; maxilla reaching to eye, lips not thickened; chin with 2 pores and a median pit. Scale on lateral line 47, 5 scale rows between lateral line and dorsal fin origin. Color of body silvery, darker above; fins yellowish-brown; a large blue-black blotch on the operculum (Fig. 3 a).

Sumber: Grunts (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Haemulidae) of Bangladesh with two new distributional records from the northern Bay of Bengal assessed by morphometric characters and DNA barcoding

Local common name: rupali datina (Bangla) Fig. 3 a

Sumber: Grunts (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Haemulidae) of Bangladesh with two new distributional records from the northern Bay of Bengal assessed by morphometric characters and DNA barcoding

Distribution. Pomadasys argyreus is known to occur in Bangladesh (Hussain 1970), elsewhere in Indo-West Pacific: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka eastward to Southeast Asia and south to Papua New Guinea (McKay 2001; Psomadakis et al. 2015; Froese and Pauly 2020).

Sumber: Grunts (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Haemulidae) of Bangladesh with two new distributional records from the northern Bay of Bengal assessed by morphometric characters and DNA barcoding