Aug 26, 2024 · Mouth of this fish is small and toothless. Lower jaw with small tubercle at tip, fitting into notch in upper jaw. There are no bony gular plate between arms of lower jaw. These fish generally have 13-17 dorsal soft rays, 8-10 anal soft rays and 31 caudal fin rays.

The Gonorynchiformes / ɡ ɒ n ə ˈ r ɪ ŋ k ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of ray-finned fish that includes the important food source, the milkfish (Chanos chanos, family Chanidae), and a number of lesser-known types, both marine and freshwater.

Milkfish have a long, muscular, silvery body with a forked tail. The forked tail is fairly large and strong, thus making them fast and powerful swimmers of the open sea (Bagarinao 1994). Milkfish have large eyes, a pointed snout with a terminal mouth, and cycloid scales. The total length ranges from 50 cm to 180 cm (Bagarinao 1994, Gale 2003).

Its mouth is small, terminal, and without teeth. It also lacks a bony gular plate between arms of lower jaw like the tenpounders. Milkfish is found in the Indian and tropical Pacific oceans in area where water temperature is above 20 degree Celsius.

Jul 16, 2024 · Milkfish are active hunters. They forage over reefs and muddy bottoms sucking up prey. Their upturned mouths allow them to feed from the substrate surface. Strong currents through the gills then filter out food particles from the water. While milkfish may seem like typical silver fish at first glance, they have some unique and fascinating features:

The mouth is tiny, and there are no teeth. Olive-green body with silvery flanks and dark-bordered fins. They contain 13 - 17 dorsal soft rays, eight to ten anal soft rays, and thirty-one caudal-fin rays.

The morphology of the digestive system of juvenile and adult milkfish suggests that it is an herbivore with generalist tendencies (Bagarinao, 1991). It has a small toothless mouth, fine closely spaced gill rakers, and a pair of muscular raker-like epibranchial organs.

Milkfish are euryhaline, stenothermic fish. They occur and can be cultured in freshwater, brackishwater, and marine waters but only in the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific oceans (rare in eastern Pacific from southern California to Peru) where temperature is >20°C.

The Milkfish, Chanos chanos, is the sole global member of the Milkfish or Chanidae Family, and is known in Mexico as sabalote in Mexico. In the greater Los Cabos area of Baja California Sur this fish is referred to as lizón, which translates into Big Lisa and Big Mullet.

Milkfish are blue-green dorsally with silver flanks, a white belly,a small toothless mouth and a large, deeply-forked tail fin. The eyes are covered with thick, gelatinous adipose eyelids. This species matures at around 65-80 cm long (5-8 years old) …