family Gerreidae

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family Gerreidae - mojarras

fish family - any of various families of fish

order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna

mojarra - small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters

genus Gerres, Gerres - type genus of the Gerreidae

Eucinostomus, genus Eucinostomus - a genus of Gerreidae

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The family Gerreidae was very abundant species in Ria Lagartos coastal lagoon (Vega-Cendejas & Hernandez de Santillana, 2004; Peralta-Meixueiro & Vega-Cendejas, 2011).

Feeding habits of the mojarras (Gerreidae) population in the hyperhaline lagoon system of Ria Lagartos, Yucatan, Mexico

Family Gerreidae comprises some 40 species belonging to seven genera [2].

Evaluation the quality of the oil waste histological changes in the ovaries of the whipfin fish, Gerres filamentosus (Cuvier, 1829) during the reproductive cycle in the Hurghada Red Sea, Egypt

One of the characteristic groups of fishes of coastal zones in the Gulf of Mexico and in the South Atlantic of the American continent belongs to the Family Gerreidae. These organisms can be found in both estuaries and coastal lagoons; generally, juveniles occur in estuaries and adults in the coastal zones (Abarca et al.

Morphology and morphometric relationships of the sagitta of Diapterus auratus (Perciformes: Gerreidae) from Veracruz, Mexico