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milkfish (Chanos chanos)
| Subject: | milkfish (Chanos chanos)
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Upload Date: 2017:05:26 14:39:53
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Chanos salmoneus
Date 1841-1852
Source/Photographer Vaillant, Voyage autour du monde ... sur la corvette La Bonite, Poissons, pl. 7
Old Latin name Chanos salmoneus
New Latin name Chanos chanos
Common name Nederlands: Bandeng
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chanos_salmoneus_-_1841-1852_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15100093.tif
The milkfish (Chanos chanos) is the sole living species in the family Chanidae. Chanos chanos occurs in the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific Ocean, from South Africa to Hawaii and the Marquesas, from California to the Galapagos, north to Japan, south to Australia. Milkfishes commonly live in tropical offshore marine waters around islands and along continental shelves. |
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