Gazza minuta

Gazza minuta
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Leiognathidae
Genus:	Gazza
Species:	G. minuta
Binomial name
	Gazza minuta; (Bloch, 1795)
Synonyms
	Scomber minutus Bloch, 1795; Equula minuta (Bloch, 1795); Zeus argentarius Forster, 1801; Gazza argentaria (Forster, 1801); Gazza equulaeformis Rüppell, 1835; Equula dispar De Vis, 1884; Gazza dispar (De Vis, 1884);

Gazza minuta, the toothpony or toothed ponyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and the east African coast east through the Indian and Pacific Oceans to Australia and Tahiti north as far as the Ryukyu Islands. It occurs over sandy and silty bottoms, although the young prefer mangroves and silty reefs. it feeds using its protruding pipette-like mouth or using the gill rakers as seives. Its food consists of smaller fishes, crustaceans and polychaetes.^[2]

References

^ Larson, H.; Sparks, J.S. (2017). "Gazza minuta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T166575A44015980. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T166575A44015980.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gazza minuta". FishBase. December 2019 version.

External links

Toothed Ponyfish @ Fishes of Australia

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[iucn_status_20_November_2021-1] Larson, H.; Sparks, J.S. (2017). "Gazza minuta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T166575A44015980. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T166575A44015980.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[Fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gazza minuta". FishBase. December 2019 version.

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