Scientific Name	Gazza minuta   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	(Bloch, 1795)	Depth	1 - 40M
Chinese	小牙鰏	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鰏科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F366　Leiognathidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	小牙鰏
Max Length	21 cm FL	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	花令仔、金錢仔、咪卯漲(澎湖)
Distribution in World	India Ocean to Pan_Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	West、South、North、PonFu
Habitats	Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	Malabar, India
Synonyms	Equula dispar, Equula minuta, Gaza minuta, Gazza argentaria, Gazza dispar, Gazza equulaeformis, Gazza equulasformis, Gazza equuleformis, Gazza minuata, Gazza tapeinosoma, Scomber minutus, Zeus argentarius
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)  N. Jayabalan etc. 1985 N. Jayabalan 1988 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993
Specimen List	ASIZP0058766. ASIZP0058886. ASIZP0059327. ASIZP0060455. ASIZP0060975. ASIZP0061516. ASIZP0066603. ASIZP0066616. ASIZP0066629. ASIZP0067245. ASIZP0071545. ASIZP0074394. ASIZP0076047. ASIZP0076142. ASIZP0076143. ASIZP0076144. ASIZP0076383. ASIZP0076393. ASIZP0076395. ASIZP0076408. ASIZP0076431. ASIZP0076448. ASIZP0076457. ASIZP0076516. ASIZP0801767. ASIZP0801768. ASIZP0801769. ASIZP0802215. ASIZP0802608. ASIZP0802609. ASIZP0807060. ASIZP0807061. ASIZP0807062. ASIZP0900021. ASIZP0911767. ASIZP0911768. ASIZP0911769. ...List all 76 records...
Barcode	2008-03-25,Kui-Ching Hsu,CO1,100% 2016-01-27,HAN-YANG,CO1,100% 2016-01-27,HAN-YANG,CO1,100% 2016-01-27,HAN-YANG,CO1,100%
Common Name	Pony fish; Toothed soapy; Tooth pony; Toothed pony fish; Toothpony; Common toothed-ponyfish; Common toothed ponyfish; Common ponyfish; Largetoothed ponyfish; Kaikai
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body oval and somewhat compressed, its depth 1.9 to 2.7 times in SL; dorsal and ventral profiles equally convex, moderately deep. Mouth pointing forward when protracted, with distinct caniniform teeth in both jaws. Gill rakers approximately equal in length to corresponding gill lamellae, 17 to 20 on first gill arch. A single dorsal fin with VIII and 16 soft rays; anal fin with III spines and 13 or 14 soft rays; caudal fin forked. Head scaleless, but scales covering all of body except for breast ahead of a line from base of pectoral fins to origin of anal fin. Body silvery; back greyish, with dark yellow irregular marks extending to below lateral line.
habitats	Found in coastal waters. Young enter estuaries. Searches for prey using a protruding pipette-like mouth or by sieving potential food through their gill rakers. Feeds on small fishes, shrimps, other crustaceans, and polychaetes.
Distribution	Distributed in the Indo-Pacific from Red Sea and the east African coast (30° to about 50°S), including Madagascar, Seychelles, Réunion Islands and Mauritius to Australia and Tahiti. In Western Pacific, recorded as far north as the Ryukyus. It is foun
Utility	Sold fresh and dried salted; also made into fishmeal.