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Coilia mystus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Osbeck's grenadier anchovy
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Viet Nam country information

Common names: Cá Lành canh đuôi phượng, Phoenix-tailed anchovy
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Nguyen, H.P. and N.T. Nguyen, 1994
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from northern Vietnam (Ref. 44416), the Gulf of Tonkin and Southern Vietnam (Ref. 9706); also from Quang Ninh-Cat Ba (Ref. 58534).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/vm.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Nguyen, H.P. and N.T. Nguyen, 1994
National Database:

Common names from other countries

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

Teleostei (teleosts) > Clupeiformes (Herrings) > Engraulidae (Anchovies) > Coiliinae
Etymology: Coilia: Greek, koilia, -as = abdomen, hollow (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Linnaeus.

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

Marine; freshwater; brackish; pelagic-neritic; amphidromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 10 - ? m (Ref. 12298).   Tropical; 42°N - 4°N, 94°E - 127°E (Ref. 189)

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