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Scientific Name: Pseudapocryptes elongatus (Cuvier, 1816)

Synonym: Pseudapocryptes lanceolatus (Currently unaccepted)

English Name: Mud Skipper
Local/Bangla Name: Chiring (চিড়িং), Chewa (চেওয়া)
Bonyfish : Pseudapocryptes elongatus

Photo: ABR Lab

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Description:
D1 V; D 2 I/29; P1 20; P 2 12; A I/29. Ground color dorsally yellowish to pale brown to reddish brown and ventrally white; 6-8 dark brown diagonal saddlelike bars are frequently visible on flanks and dorsum; caudal fin yellowish to brownish with many brown speckles; anal, pectoral and pelvic fins translucent to yellowish to orange. Body elongate and little compressed; base of dorsal and anal fins long. Scale longitudinal, cycloid.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
In estuaries and the rivers. Fairly common in rivers, canals and creeks of the sundarbans.
Environment:
Freshwater, Brackish (Demersal; amphidromous)
Main References:

Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp.

Other References:

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp. AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman AKA 2005 Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh, 2nd ed., Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, xviii + 394 pp. MM (eds.) 2007 Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 23. Freshwater Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 300 pp.

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