''Leptobrama muelleri'', also known as the spot-fin beachsalmon is a

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al marine and brackish water ray-finned fish belonging to the order

Carangiformes Carangiformes is a large, diverse order of ray-finned fishes within the clade Percomorpha. It is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, alongside its sister group, the Anabantaria (including Anabantiformes and Synbranchiformes). The Cara ...

. It is found in

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coastal waters of the Western Pacific off southern

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and

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. The beachsalmon is a popular sport fish in

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, where it is sometimes called "flat salmon", "silver salmon", "slender bream" or "skippy" (a name also applied to several

of trevallies).Kimura, S., Peristiwady, T. & Fricke, R. (2016): Taxonomic review of the genus ''Leptobrama'' Steindachner 1878 (Perciformes: Leptobramidae), with the resurrection of ''Leptobrama pectoralis'' (Ramsay and Ogilby 1887). ''Ichthyological Research, 63 (4): 435-444.'' Historically, ''Leptobrama'' was placed in the sweeper family Pempheridae; while the two are similar, they have no more characteristics in common than "any other two arbitrarily chosen acanthopterygian forms might be expected to have,"Tominaga, Y. (1965)
The Internal Morphology and Systematic Position of ''Leptobrama mülleri'', Formerly Included in the Family Pempheridae
''Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 12 (3/6): 33-56.'' therefore justifying the placement of ''Leptobrama'' in its own family. The genus name ''Leptobrama'' may be translated from the Greek ''leptos'', meaning "thin" and the

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''bresme'', meaning "breme" or "freshwater fish", an allusion to its tendency to enter the mouths of rivers and estuary, estuaries.

Description

This species is characterized by a deep, laterally compressed, and wikt:fusiform, fusiform body. The dorsal fin is also reduced and begins behind the middle of the body; it contains four spines and 16-18 soft rays. The

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originates at about the middle of the body and contains three spines and 26-30 soft rays. The maxillae extend well beyond the small eyes; the preorbital is serrated, and the adipose lid is present. The lateral line is described as having long, narrow tubes and from 75 to 77 scales. It has about 10 short gill rakers. The maximum recorded

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for the species is .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q678257 Carangiformes Taxa named by Franz Steindachner Fish described in 1878