The Silverbelly is a schooling species found in near rocky reefs and seagrass beds in bays, and coastal areas. The Silverbelly uses its protrusible mouth to poke around for invertebrates on sandy and muddy bottoms. Body deep, compressed, forehead convex, snout pointed with protrusible jaws; dorsal and anal fins long based, low at front, progressively becoming taller; tail base slender, caudal fin slightly forked. Silvery, darker above, scales with blue and yellow on lower scales, dorsal fin with a yellow margin.

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Habitat Sandy and muddy areas in coastal waters and bays, often near seagrass.
Size Usually 10 cm long head to tail tip cangrow up to around 21cm
Origin Endemic
Distribution Coastal waters of southern Australia
Descriptions
Distribution
Coastal waters of southern Australia
Habitat
Sandy and muddy areas in coastal waters and bays, often near seagrass.
Size
Usually 10 cm long head to tail tip cangrow up to around 21cm
Common Name Silverbelly
Aliases No Known Aliases
Origin Endemic
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Distribution provided by The Atlas of Living Australia

Classification

Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
SubphylumVertebrata
SuperclassGnathostomata
ClassActinopterygii
SubclassEuteleostei
SuperorderAcanthopterygii
OrderPerciformes
SuborderPercoidei
FamilyGerreidae
GenusParequula
SpeciesParequula melbournensis
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