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This species has morphological characters related to the second vertebra (Ref. 123404) that are diagnostic to the genus Planiliza.(Refs. 115045, 123265), Placed in Chelon in ECoF.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic. Subtropical
Northwest Pacific: Japan through the Ryukyus, Korea, China, Taiwan, to Vietnam (Ref. 137907). Might occur as a rare visitor to the northern extreme of the Western Central Pacific.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 39.4 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 121531); max. published weight: 408.30 g (Ref. 121531)
Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8 - 9; Vertebrae: 24. This species is distinguished by the following characters: hind tip of maxilla exposed when mouth is closed; head relatively small and flattened dorsally, head length 22-28% of SL; adipose eyelid is developed anteriorly and posteriorly covering part of iris; mid-dorsal line is sharply keeled; second vertebra with a pair of long, spine or antenna like neural postzygapophyse; stomach gizzard-like, with five unbranched pyloric caeca; transverse scales 11-13 (mode 12) rows; scales in lateral series usually 36-40; pectoral-fin usually with 17 rays; pectoral-fin length, 14-18% of SL, not reaching to level of first dorsal fin; supraneurals 3, the first between second and third vertebrae, second between fourth and fifth vertebrae, and third between fifth and sixth vertebrae; first pterygiophore of spinous dorsal fin positions in between sixth and seventh vertebrae (Ref. 137907).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
Occurs in coastal and estuarine waters near river mouths, occasionally visiting upstream tidally influenced zones (Ref. 137907). Oviparous, eggs are pelagic and non-adhesive (Ref. 205). Consumed locally in many places but likely not fished in commercial quantities (Ref. 137907).
Used as food fish in Japan.
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Hasan, M. E., A. Hasan, P. Béarez, K.-N. Shen, C.-W. Chang, T. T. V. Tran, D. Golani, A. Al-Saboonchi, P. J. A. Siddiqui and J.-D. Durand, 2022. Planiliza lauvergnii (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850), a senior synonym of Planiliza affinis (Günther, 1861) with a re-evaluation of keeled back mullets (Mugiliformes: Mugilidae). Zootaxa 5194(4):497-518. (Ref. 137907)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: subsistence fisheries
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