Pinjalo
Pinjalo may refer to: *Pinjalo (genus), ''Pinjalo'' (genus), a genus of fishes in the family Lutjanidae **''Pinjalo pinjalo'', the fish species with the common name pinjalo **''Pinjalo lewisi'', the fish species with the common name slender or red pinjalo {{Disambiguation ...
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Pinjalo Pinjalo
''Pinjalo pinjalo'', the pinjalo, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Pinjalo pinjalo'' was first formally described in 1850 as ''Caesio pinjalo'' by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker with the type locality given as Batavia on Java. The specific name derives from the Malay ''ikan Pinjalo'', a local name for this fish around the type locality. When Bleeker created the genus '' Pinjalo'' he used the name ''Pinjalo typus'' for the type species but this proved to be a ''nomen nudum'' and ''Caesio pinjalo'' was designated as the type species by tautonymy. Description ''Pinjalo pinjalo'' has a body which is moderately deep with a steep dorsal profile on the head and a convex space between the eyes. it has a comparatively large eye which has a diameter roughly equal or greater than the length of the snout. The eye has an adipose eyelid ...
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