A small, typically silvery fish with a very protrusible mouth. It is particularly abundant in shallow coastal and brackish waters of tropical America.
Family Gerreidae: several genera and numerous species
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- Flagfin mojarra has a dark marking on the dorsal fin with a white stripe just below the dark marking.
- Striped mojarra live in shallow coastal waters and occasionally travel quite a distance into freshwater.
- Several taxa (mojarras and catfish) were estuarine and peripheral, and the rest, small fishes sold fresh or fried, were reportedly from local rivers.
- The men reminisced about hearing the bell while night-fishing for mojarra and boneless quishele to sell in the market.
- Only the turkey wing clam and the mojarras (two species that have been exploited only relatively recently) show recent landings that are above the peak landings on a five-year running mean.