Agonostomus telfairii

Agonostomus telfairii, the fairy mullet, is a species of fish in the family Mugilidae, the mullets. It is known by the common name fairy mullet.[2][3] It is native to the islands off the eastern coast of Africa, where it can be found in freshwater bodies and estuaries in Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, and Réunion.[2][3] It returns to the sea to spawn.[3]

Agonostomus telfairii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Mugiliformes
Family: Mugilidae
Genus: Agonostomus
Species:
A. telfairii
Binomial name
Agonostomus telfairii
Synonyms
  • Nestis cyprinoides Valenciennes, 1836
  • Nestis dobuloides Valenciennes, 1836
  • Agonostoma dobuloides (Valenciennes, 1836)
  • Agonostomus dobuloides (Valenciennes, 1836)

This species grows to a length of 75 centimetres (30 in) TL and is of minor importance to commercial fisheries.[3] The specific name honours the Irish botanist and ship's surgeon Charles Telfair (1778-1833), who is known to have made a botanical and zoological collection in Mauritius in 1810 which included the type of this species.[4]

References
  1. Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Agonostomus telfairii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T697A3136689. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T697A3136689.en.
  2. Stiassny, M. 1996. Agonostomus telfairii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. Downloaded on 13 April 2015.
  3. Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds. Agonostomus telfairii. FishBase. 2015.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (4 June 2018). "Mugiliformes". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 October 2018.


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