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  • Northern Whiting, 1 of 6
    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Jiayuan Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Northern Whiting, 2 of 6
    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) sharkdevotee, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

  • Northern Whiting, 3 of 6
    Photo 3 of 6

    (c) Chien Lee, all rights reserved

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    Photo 4 of 6

    (c) Jiayuan Lin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 5 of 6

    (c) LEE Yeung, Gabriel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) 劉一新, all rights reserved

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Northern Whiting

Sillago sihama

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The northern whiting, Sillago sihama (also known as the silver whiting and sand smelt), is a marine fish, the most widespread and abundant member of the smelt-whiting family Sillaginidae. The northern whiting was the first species of sillaginid scientifically described and is therefore the type species of both the family Sillaginidae and the genus Sillago. The species is distributed in the Indo-Pacific region from South Africa in the west to Japan and Indonesia in the east,...

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