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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)
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, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hasan MA, Khondker M and Rahman MM (eds.) (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 23. Freshwater Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 300+xxxi. pp.
