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Eleutheronema tetradactylum (Shaw, 1804)

Fourfinger threadfin
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Common names: Four finger thread fin, Sì zhĭ mǎ yǒu, 午仔
Occurrence: misidentification
Salinity: brackish
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Outside distributional range (Motomura, 2022 in Ref. 127963); accounts most probably referring to Eleutheronema rhadinum in Ref. 41252, 47843.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Heemstra, P.C., E. Heemstra, D.A. Ebert, W. Holleman and J.E. Randall (eds.), 2022
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Carangaria/misc (Various families in series Carangaria) > Polynemidae (Threadfins)
Etymology: Eleutheronema: Greek, eleutheros = free + Greek, nema = filament (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Shaw.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; freshwater; brackish; pelagic-neritic; amphidromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 0 - 23 m (Ref. 6390).   Tropical; 32°N - 26°S, 47°E - 154°E (Ref. 57343)

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