Species: Menidia species A, Least Silverside
7 scale rows D origin to pelvic insertion
Menidia species A
Least Silverside
Body elongate, compressed; eye large; snout shorter than eye, without pits, pores or tubes on top; top jaw extendible, premaxilla with rear end greatly expanded, without expanded bony process above its center; teeth well developed, in bands; first dorsal IV-VI, origin over middle of pelvic fin, its entire base over the pelvic fin; horizontal distance between 1st dorsal and anal >7% of SL; anal fin I, 10-14; pelvics inserted nearer pectoral base than anal origin; scales without scalloped edges; 7 scale rows from insertion of pelvic to origin of dorsal fin; lateral line pits begin on 3rd-4th scale behind pectoral fin base on scale row below silver stripe; lateral scales 32-34.
Pale to slightly translucent; lateral stripe prominent; back faintly stippled in black.
Reaches 5.2 cm.
Hypersaline estuary.
Depth range: 0-5 m.
The northern tip of the Yucatan peninsula.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Hypersaline
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Mid Water
- Near Bottom
- Near Surface
- Surface
- Water column only
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Estuary
- Flotsam
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent only
- GC endemic
- Gulf of Mexico endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 5.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
