Whiptail breams (5)

General descriptionWhiptail breams also known as Threadfin breams and false snappers belong to the Family „Nemipteridae“ (contains 5 genera and 62 species), each of which have slightly differing flavour and visual characteristics. They are distributed to the tropical and sub-tropical Indo-West Pacific including Cocos-Keeling Islands and northwestern Australia, from the Ryukyu Islands to the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu, occurs in inshore and coral reef waters.

Whiptail breams are carnivorous [Further read]fishes that feed mainly on benthic small fishes, cephalopods , crustaceans and polychaetes ; some species are planktivores . Some species of Scolopsis are known as protogynous hermaphrodit. All fishes of the Family „Nemipteridae“ are known as potentially hardy.

Pentapodus(1), Scolopsis(4)

Pentapodus (1)

P. emeryii