Planiliza klunzingeri, Klunzinger's mullet : fisheries

Planiliza klunzingeri (Day, 1888)

Klunzinger's mullet
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Mugiliformes (Mullets) > Mugilidae (Mullets)
Eponymy: Dr Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (1834–1914) was a German physician and zoologist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Day.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal. Subtropical; 30°N - 8°N, 49°E - 77°E

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Western Indian Ocean: easterrn and northern coasts of Arabian Sea, west coast of India and Pakistan, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 15.6, range 14 - 18 cm
Max length : 24.4 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 121501); max. published weight: 191.00 g (Ref. 121501)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 9; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 9; Vertebrae: 24. This species is distinguished by the following characters: hind tip of maxilla exposed when mouth is closed; head relatively large, slightly convex, the head length 27-31% of SL; adipose eyelid developed anteriorly and posteriorly; mid-dorsal line is sharply keeled; stomach gizzard-like, unbranched pyloric caeca five; transverse scales 11-13 (mode 12) row; scales in lateral series usually 34-38; pectoral-fin rays usually 16; pectoral-fin length 20-26% of SL, just reaching to level of first dorsal-fin; supraneurals 3: the first between second and third vertebrae, the second between fourth and fifth vertebrae, and the third between sixth and seventh vertebrae; first pterygiophore of spinous dorsal fin is between seventh and eighth vertebrae (Ref. 137907).
Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Oviparous, eggs are pelagic and non-adhesive (Ref. 205).

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Synchronous ovarian organization (Ref. 52049).

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Harrison, Ian | Collaborators

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)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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