Fingerfish
Monodactylidae is a family of Perciformes, perciform bony fish commonly referred to as monos, moonyfishes or fingerfishes. All are strongly laterally compressed with disc-shaped bodies and tall anal and dorsal fins. Unusually for fish, Scale (zoology), scales occur on their dorsal fins and sometimes on the anal fins. The pelvic fins are small, sometimes vestigial. They are of moderate size, typically around in length, and ''Monodactylus sebae'' can be taller than it is long, measuring up to from the tip of the dorsal fin down to the tip of the anal fin. These long, scaly fins have given them the name "fingerfishes". Most are silvery with yellow and black markings; the juveniles are especially attractive, and most species are popular as aquarium fish. The family contains six extant species in two genus, genera, ''Monodactylus'' and ''Schuettea''. They are distributed along the coastlines of Africa, India, and southern Asia, and as far west as Australia. Species of ''Monodactylus' ...
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Silver Moony
''Monodactylus argenteus'' is a species of fish in the family Monodactylidae, the moonyfishes. Its common names include silver moonyfish, or silver moony,Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors''Monodactylus argenteus''.FishBase. 2017. butter bream, and diamondfish.''Monodactylus argenteus''.
Fishes of Australia. It is native to the western Pacific and s, including the , , and associated estuaries, such as the