Silver biddy

Silver biddy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Gerreidae
Genera
See text.

Silver biddies (singular: silver biddy), also spelled silver-biddies, is the name used to refer to bony fishes belonging to the Gerreidae family in the order Perciformes. They are also known as Jerki (Sin) or Mudro (Bal). In French, silver biddies are known as blanches, and called mojarras in Spanish.^[1]

Fishes in the Gerreidae family that include "silver biddy" in their common names include: ^[1]

• Gerres equulus, Japanese silver-biddy
• Gerres filamentosus or Gerres filamentosis (Cuvier, 1829), also known as Gerres punctatus (Cuvier, 1830), Pertica filamentosa (Munro, 1955) and Gerres macracanthus (Bleeker, 1854). G. filamentosus is known as Whipfin silver biddy or Long-rayed silver biddy in English, as Blanche fil in French and as Mojarra del hebra in Spanish.^[1]
• Gerres methueni, Striped silver biddy
• Gerres oyena (Forsskål , 1775), also known as Lined silver biddy and Common silver biddy in English, as Blanche commune in French and as Mojarra común in Spanish.^[1]
• Gerres poieti (Cuvier, 1829), also known as Strongspine silver biddy in English, Blanche armée in French and Mojarra espinuda in Spanish.
• Gerres setifer, Small Bengal silver-biddy
• Gerres subfasciatus
• Pentaprion longimanus (Cantor, 1850), also known as Longfin silver-biddy in English, as Blanche à pagaies in French and Mojarra alona in Spanish.^[1]
• Parequula melbournensis or Melbourne Silver Biddy, a species similar to G. subfasciatus

See also

• Lutjanidae

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Gerreidae, Bony Fishes, ftp.fao.org