''Nemipterus tambuloides'', the fivelined threadfin bream, is a species of marine

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belonging to the

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Nemipteridae Nemipteridae are a family of fishes within the order Perciformes. They are known as threadfin breams, whiptail breams and false snappers. They are found in tropical waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Most species are benthic carni ...

, the threadfin breams. This fish is found in the

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region.

Taxonomy

''Nemipterus tambuloides'' was first formally described as ''Dentex tambuloides'' in 1853 by the Dutch

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and

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Pieter Bleeker Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia ...

with its type locality given as

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. The 5th edition of ''

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'' classifies ''

Nemipterus ''Nemipterus'' is a genus of fish in the family Nemipteridae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but now also occur in the Mediterranean Sea due to Lessepsian migration. Species There are currently 28 recognized species in this ge ...

'' within the family Nemipteridae which it places in the

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Spariformes.

Etymology

''Nemipterus tambuloides'' has a

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which suffixes ''oides'' with the specific name of ''Dentex tabula'', a

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of '' N. japonicus'', to denote its resemblance to that species.

Description

''Nemipterus tambuloides'' has its

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supported by 10 spines and 9 soft rays while the

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contains3 spines and 7 soft rays. Its body has a

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that is 3.2 to 3.6 times its depth and it has a snout that is longer than or equal to the diameter of the eye. There are 3 or 4 pairs of canine-like teeth in the front of the upper jaw. The pectoral and the

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s are long, extending to between level of anus and origin of the anal fin. The caudal fin is forked with the upper lobe being pointed. The colour of the upper body is pinkish fading to on the lower body with 5 clear yellow longitudinal stripes along the body. The cheeks and operculum have gold and purple tints. The dorsal fin is translucent pink with a yellow margin and bluish grey stripe just below the margin and a slender yellow stripe running from immediately above its base, The anal fin is translucent and bluish white in colour with a pale yellow stripe close to its base, bending towards the rear and running along the last anal soft ray to its tip. The caudal fin is bright pinl, with the tip of the upper lobe being yellow. The pectoral fins are pale pink and the pelvic fins are pale yellowish. The maximum published

of this fish is , although is more typical.

Distribution and habitat

''Nemipterus tambuloides is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean. Its range extends from the

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and

Gulf of Thailand The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula. It is around in l ...

east to the western Philippines and includes the

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Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

and

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...

. It is a

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, non migratory species occurring at depths between over sandy or muddy substrates.

Fisheries

''Nemipterus tambuloides'' is commercially trawled for, albeit in a mixed catch, in Malaysia and Indonesia and is an important species in the making of

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. It is also fished for using

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by subsitence and artisanal fishers.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1927819 Fish of Thailand Fish of Malaysia Fish described in 1853 Fish of the Pacific Ocean tambuloides Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker