Japanese Threadfin Bream, Pentapodus nagasakiensis (Tanaka 1915)

Other Names: Big-eye Whiptail, Japanese Butterfish, Japanese Whiptail

Summary:

A yellowish threadfin bream becoming whitish below, with a broad yellow stripe running from the snout through the eye to the caudal-fin base, that is bounded above and below by whitish stripes.

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Bray, D.J. 2023, Pentapodus nagasakiensis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 03 Oct 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/614

Japanese Threadfin Bream, Pentapodus nagasakiensis (Tanaka 1915)

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Distribution	Houtman Abrohlos, Western Australia, to the Arafura Sea, NE of Darwin, and the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, with juveniles south to Sydney, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the west-Pacific. Inhabits soft sediment areas, often around coral reefs.
Features	Dorsal fin X,9; Anal fin III,7. Head scales reaching forward to between level of anterior margin of eyes and posterior nostrils. Suborbital naked. Lower limb of preopercle naked. Pelvic fins moderately long, reaching to or almost to level of anus. Lobes of caudal fin pointed, more or less equal in length. Axillary scale present.
Feeding	Feeds mostly on small crustaceans, especially shrimps.
Fisheries	Occasionally taken as bycatch in mixed-species fisheries.
Etymology	The species is named for the type locality: a fish market at Nagasaki, Japan.
Species Citation	Leptoscolopsis nagasakiensis Tanaka 1915. Figures and Descriptions of the Fishes of Japan, including Riukiu Islands, Bonin Islands, Formosa, Kurile Islands, Korea and southern Sakhalin. Tokyo Vol. 20: 365. Type locality: Nagasaki fish market, Japan.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2023
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Japanese Threadfin Bream, Pentapodus nagasakiensis (Tanaka 1915)

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