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Small silvery fishes
How to tell them apart?
updated Sep 2020


Several different kinds of small fishes are silvery. Here's more on how to tell them apart.


Kops' glass perchelet
(Ambassis kopsii)
Family Ambassidae

Mojarra
Family Gerreidae

 
 
Dorsal fin deeply notched, with blackish tip. Dorsal fin single continunous (not notched) with blackish tip.  

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Whiting
Family Sillaginidae

Long, slender body. Long snout.

Whiting
Family Sillaginidae

Long, slender body. Long snout.


Tropical silverside
Atherinomorus duodecimalis
Family Atherinidae

Long, slender body. Short snout.
Colours silvery grey, bluish to
bright blue.
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