Whipfin silver-biddy
Gerres filamentosus
- Usual depth1–50 m
- Water temperature19–29 °C
- Best monthsSeptember, October, and November
- How commonOccasional
About this species
Gerres filamentosus, the whipfin silver-biddy, flagfin mojarra or threadfin silver belly, is a ray-finned fish native to the coastline of Africa and Madagascar east to Japan, Australia and New Caledonia.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Gerres filamentosus”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 24 records
- February: 16 records
- March: 10 records
- April: 27 records
- May: 31 records
- June: 25 records
- July: 32 records
- August: 28 records
- September: 56 records
- October: 55 records
- November: 54 records
- December: 16 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 1–50 m · Deepest record: 111 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 19–29 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Whipfin silver-biddy, Flagfin Mojarra, Long-rayed silver biddy, threadfin silverbelly, Thread-fin Silver-belly, Threadfin Silverbiddy, Whipfin Mojarra, Whipfin Silverbelly, whipfin silver-biddy, Whipfin Silverbiddy, Whipfin silver-biddy, Whipfin silverbiddy
Names in 5 more languages
- Spanish
- Mojarra de Velo Plateado
- French
- Blanc à long filament, Blanche fil
- Japanese
- Itohikisagi, イトヒキサギ
- Thai
- ปลาดอกหมากกระโดง
- Simplified Chinese
- 曳絲鑽嘴魚, 碗米仔, 長棘銀鱸, 長棘銀鱸 (曳絲鑽嘴魚)
Other scientific names: Gerres philippinus, Gerres punctata, Gerres punctatus, Pertica filamentosa, Sparus edentulus
Similar species
- deep-bodied mojarra
Gerres erythrourus
- longtail silver biddy
Gerres longirostris
- Long-rayed Mojarra
Gerres macracanthus
- Slender silver-biddy
Gerres oblongus
- Common silver-biddy
Gerres oyena
- Longfin Mojarra
Pentaprion longimanus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 1,492 open-data records from 1829 to 2023.
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