Dorab wolf-herring
| Dorab wolf-herring Temporal range: 55–0 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Clupeiformes |
| Family: | Chirocentridae Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846 |
| Genus: | Chirocentrus Cuvier, 1816 |
| Species: | Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskål, 1775) |
The dorab wolf-herring, Chirocentrus dorab is a fish species from the Chirocentrus genus of the Chirocentridae family.[2] It is a coastal fish, silvery below and bright blue above. It is found in both marine and brackish or estuarine waters, feeding on smaller fish and possibly crustaceans.[3] Chirocentrus is from the Greek cheir meaning hand and kentron meaning sting. Dorab is from the Arabic language word darrab (ضرّاب) and the word is probably a corrupted form of durubb (دُرُبّ) the name for goldfish in Arabic.[4] It has another Arabic name, lisan (لسان) [4] which means tongue.
Range
Indo-Pacific: probably throughout the warmer coastal waters, from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Recently reported from Tonga.[3]
Fisheries
The dorab wolf-herring is a commercial species which is sold fresh, dried, salted or frozen. It is also a game fish.[5]
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ↑ "Chirocentrus dorab". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved April 2012.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Chirocentrus dorab" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
- 1 2 An Arabic Zoological Dictionary by Amin Malouf MD. 1985 edition page 86 (Dar Al Rayid Al Arabi)
- 1 2 Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskål, 1775) FAO, Species Fact Sheet. Retrieved April 2012.