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California Grunion

Leuresthes tenuis

Also known as: Californian Grunion, Grunion, Oceanic Silverside

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@robokyle · COAL OIL POINT RESERVE, United States · April 20211 / 1
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Overview

Found in large schools, usually close to the surface of inshore waters, in bays and along open coastlines. These are beach spawning fish.
Eastern Pacific - Mexico, USA

Neotropical silversides are distributed in freshwater and marine temperate waters of America. Often used as bait food.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
stripes
Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Pacific
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Found in large schools, usually close to the surface of inshore waters, in bays and along open coastlines.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderAtheriniformes
    5. familyAtherinopsidae
    6. genusLeuresthes
    7. speciesLeuresthes tenuis (Ayres, 1860)

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