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Threadfin Shad (Dorosoma petenense)
Description Dorosoma is Greek for "lance body", referring to the lance-like shape of young shad. The word petenense refers to Lake Peten in the Yucatan, the species type locality.
Threadfin
Threadfins are silvery grey perciform marine fish of the family Polynemidae. Found in tropical to subtropical waters throughout the world, the threadfin family contains nine genera and 33 species.
Threadfin butterflyfish
Class: Actinopterygii
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed.
Tiger yabby ...
Live threadfin or shrimp are by far the most effective bait for sunshine bass. Artificial lures such as crankbaits, bucktail or feathered jigs, spinners and spoons also do well.
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Food
Main diet is threadfin shad. Hungry white bass will often pursue schools of shad, causing the shad to jump and "boil" the surface of the water in their frantic efforts to escape.
Will also feed on insects, invertebrates and other small fish.
A Purple Threadfin Bream at Ningaloo Reef
A Pyramid Butterflyfish at Mantis Reef
A quality control protocol for terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity assessment
A Queensland Groper at Cod Hole
A Queensland Groper at Curtain Artificial Reef ...
Apogon leptacanthus, Threadfin Cardinalfish
Apterichtus anguiformis, Slender Finless Eel
Arbacia punctulata, Purple Sea Urchin
Archamia zosterophora, Blackbelted Cardinalfish
Archamia biguttata, Twinspot Cardinalfish ...
However, its diet is often far more varied and less selective — it is known to eat threadfins, stingrays, sea turtles, sea birds, gastropods, crustaceans, mammalian carrion and even rubbish dumped from ships.
jacks, amberjacks, pompanos, roosterfishes, dolphinfishes, moonfishes, ponyfishes, pomfrets, veilfins, Australian salmons, rovers, snappers, fusiliers, tripletails, tigerperches, mojarras, grunts, bonnetmouths, porgys, seabreams, emperors, threadfin ...
Cowfish, Seahorses, Sea Raven, Shaws Cowfish, Shiner Surfperch, Shrimp Fish, Spanish Hogfish, Squirrel Fish, Squrespot Anthias, Starry Flounder, Stinging Seacat, Stonefish, Stoplight Parrotfish, Striped Surfperch (Emblotoca lateralis), Threadfin ...
 See also: Perch, Gnu, Sunfish, Bass, Shark
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