''Sillago suezensis'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...

in the smelt-whiting family

Sillaginidae The Sillaginidae, commonly known as the smelt-whitings, whitings, sillaginids, sand borers and sand-smelts, are a family of benthic coastal marine fish in the order Perciformes. The smelt-whitings inhabit a wide region covering much of the Indo ...

. It is found in western Indian Ocean and in the northern Red Sea including the Gulf of Suez. Following its first record in the Mediterranean Sea, off Lebanon in 1977, it experienced a population explosion in Levantine waters where it is now very common and reaches to the Aegean Sea. This species reaches a length of .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q20745687 Sillaginidae Taxa named by Daniel Golani Taxa named by Ronald Fricke Taxa named by Yaron Tikochinski Fish described in 2013