Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8 - 9; Vertebrae: 24. Adults have a single supraorbital spine, a short-based, deeply notched dorsal fin, and are transparent and silvery (Ref. 33616).

Common Names

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Port Jackson glassfish , English , Australia

Port Jackson perchlet , English , Australia

傑克遜雙邊魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

杰克逊双边鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Ovalentaria/misc

Family: Ambassidae

Genus: Ambassis

Species: Ambassis jacksoniensis (Macleay, 1881)

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Southwest Pacific: Endemic to Australia.

Biology

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Occurs in lentic and lotic freshwater, as well as in mangrove areas (Ref. 7300). A small schooling species also found in estuaries and coastal marine waters (Ref. 33616).

Habitat

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freshwater