Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Very abundant in coastal waters, found on mud or sand bottoms, usually in schools. Feeds mainly on small fishes, crustaceans, molluscs (mainly cephalopods), polychaetes and echinoderms. Marketed mainly fresh, but also frozen, steamed, dried-salted, dry-smoked, fermented or made into fish balls and fish meal.
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019). Golani, D.; Sonin, O. (2006). The Japanese threadfin bream <i>Nemipterus japonicus</i>, a new Indo-Pacific fish in the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Journal of Fish Biology.</em> 68(3): 940-943.
- contributor
- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
