Thailand country information

Common names: Wuahangphat, วัวหางพัด
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Si Racha (Chon Buri), Paknam (Samut Prakan), Rayong, Chumphon, Lem Sing (Chanthaburi), Gulf of Thailand and Phuket islands (Ref. 37773).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/th.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Fish Team of the Trang Project, 2002
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Filefish, Fan-belly leatherjacket, Fan-bellied filefish, ... more

Klassifizierung / Names Namen | Synonyme | Catalog of Fishes(Gattung, Arten) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Tetraodontiformes (Puffers and filefishes) > Monacanthidae (Filefishes)
Etymology: Monacanthus: Greek, monos = one + Greek, akantha = thorn (Ref. 45335).

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

seewasser riff-verbunden; tiefenbereich 5 - 50 m (Ref. 90102). Tropical

Verbreitung Länder | FAO Gebiete | Ecosystems | Vorkommen | Point map | Einführungen | Faunafri

Indo-Pacific: Malaysia and Indonesia to Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to northwestern Australia and New South Wales.

Size / Gewicht / Alter

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 38.0 cm TL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 3132); max. veröff. Gewicht: 580.00 g (Ref. 3132)

Kurzbeschreibung Bestimmungsschlüssel | Morphologie | Morphometrie

Rückenflossenstacheln (insgesamt) : 2; Rückenflossenweichstrahlen (insgesamt) : 28 - 34; Afterflossenweichstrahlen: 27 - 34.

Inhabits estuaries and on coastal and offshore reefs (Ref. 9563); also on weed bottoms and on trawling grounds. Found on muddy or silty substrates (Ref. 48637). Is an omnivore which feeds mainly on seagrass, algae, gammarid amphipods and caridean shrimps as well as on bryozoans, hydroids, ascidians, copepods, caprellid amphipods and tanaidaceans (Ref. 13426).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Fortpflanzung | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larven

Hauptreferenz Upload your references | Referenzen | Koordinator : Hutchins, Barry | Partner

Shen, S.C. (ed.), 1993. Fishes of Taiwan. Department of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei. 960 p. (Ref. 5193)

IUCN Rote Liste Status (Ref. 130435)

nicht bedroht (LC) ; Date assessed: 02 March 2015

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)