Selaroides leptolepis

Distribution in the area. Not endemic. Recorded from the lower Shatt Al-Arab.

Sumber: A Critical Checklist of the Inland Fishes Native to the Euphrates and Tigris Drainages

Description: Body elongate, oblong and compressed; dorsal and ventral profiles equally convex. Eye diameter about equal to slightly smaller than snout length, with adipose eyelid moderately developed on posterior half of eye; upper jaw strongly protractile with posterior end of jaw concave above, concave and reduced below. Lateral line anteriorly with a moderate regular arch, with junction of curved and straight parts below second dorsal fin between 10 th to 12 th soft rays; chord of curved part of lateral line longer than straight part of lateral line, straight part of lateral line with 13 to 25 scales followed by 24 to 29 relatively small scutes. Breast completely scaled. Colour metallic blue above, silvery white below, with a broad yellow stripe from upper margin of eye to caudal peduncle; prominent black opercular spot encroaching onto shoulder. Dorsal, arial and caudal fires pale to dusky yellow; pelvic fins white.

Sumber: An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf to the Philippines, north to Japan, south to the Arafura Sea and Australia.

Sumber: An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Persian Gulf east to Philippines, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Found in large aggregations over soft bottom near reefs, 1 – 25 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records