Dorab wolf-herring
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Chirocentridae
Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1846
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Chirocentrus
Cuvier, 1816
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Chirocentrus dorab
(Forsskål, 1775)
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The dorab wolf-herring, Chirocentrus dorab is a fish species from the Chirocentrus genus of the Chirocentridae family.[2] It is a coastal fish, silvery below and bright blue above. It is found in both marine and brackish or estuarine waters, feeding on smaller fish and possibly crustaceans.[3] Chirocentrus is from the Greek cheir meaning hand and kentron meaning sting. Dorab is from the Arabic language word darrab (ضرّاب) and the word is probably a corrupted form of durubb (دُرُبّ) the name for goldfish in Arabic.[4] It has another Arabic name, lisan (لسان) [4] which means tongue.
Range
Indo-Pacific: probably throughout the warmer coastal waters, from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Recently reported from Tonga.[3]
Fisheries
The dorab wolf-herring is a commercial species which is sold fresh, dried, salted or frozen. It is also a game fish.[5]
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Chirocentrus dorab" in FishBase. December 2013 version.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 An Arabic Zoological Dictionary by Amin Malouf MD. 1985 edition page 86 (Dar Al Rayid Al Arabi)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chirocentrus dorab (Forsskål, 1775) FAO, Species Fact Sheet. Retrieved April 2012.
