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Zubaidi, the scientific name is known as pampus argenteus and write in Latin letters in italics to signify that type name, and consists of two parts:   First sex pampus and type II argenteus    And the person who chose her name is Swedish BA World Euphrasen in 1788.     According to the scientific classification for a family Zubaydiat Stromateidae is characterized by a vesicle or Qansh in Marri to grind food is located directly after the pharynx, there are three major races under this family are:   1- peperilus2- stromateus3- pamous

 

That have been described and study spread widely in 1967, and the spread of these family members in all the world's oceans, except the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Barents Sea Barents sea and the Baltic Sea and Black Sea,

    Has been rated only four species under sex pampus but there are several types under other gender, and species that carry the same name or sex pampus Albamenus, and means in Portuguese illustrious or silver, are:


   1- (pampus chinensis (Euphrasen 1788
  2- (pampus echinogaster (Basilewsky 1855
  3- (pampus argenteus (Euphrasen 1788
  4- (pampus cinereus (Bloch 1793


     These four species are similar to some extent, but in slightly different parts of her body and fins in the form of the head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research touched for Fish Zubaidi in a study on the life and experiences of farming in Kuwaiti waters and spread, types and other information illustrated d. Solomon rain through these lines.


    Live four species belonging to the sex pampus or some of them in the northern region of the Indian Ocean and the western North Pacific Ocean stretching from the Arabian Gulf to Japan in the east, through the seas and bays around the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and north to the seas of China and around Korea, but spread through these seas tied near the mouths of coastal or river deltas,

    Nor the presence of these species in the Red Sea, was found in the Arabian Gulf, but on one type is Zubaidi pampus argenteus, and there is no trace of the other three species, and despite the fact that sex pampus spread in the northern Indian Ocean and the western North Pacific, the other races that belong the family itself spread in different parts of the world.

 

General Description of the fish-Zubaidi     Been described Zubaidi study conducted in 1974, and is characterized by Zubaidi most other fish that his body broad and colorless fin pelvic (ventral), and the greatness of a fixed jaw, and dock bluegill with Isthmus cover (widget abdominal separating Rdhetti gills), and the body is flat, and a fish display about 60% of the length of the body (without the tail), and the dorsal fin is connected to the lead by five small thorns, and be immersed in the big fish.    He said al-Zubaidi notes spread in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean areas north and west of the North Pacific, which stretches from the Arabian Gulf to the south-west of Japan, also notes the lack Zubaidi spread around Australia, and there in the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden.     He said the rain: peels are very small and circular shape and falling easily and spread all over the body and fins all the rules, and opened a Almnkhar large, round hole front and rear-shaped slit. The mouth is small in size and bend down. Featuring the bone as soft but Mtazma, and the number of spinal vertebrae of paragraph 41.

The body silvery white color, and the color of the yolk fins slant is of particular fish in a black adult parties, and head a little dark in color compared to the body, either the throat is dark inside and tends to blackness.
     The front teeth small fluffy and conical located on the greatness of pre-jaw, numbering about 40 are not on each side and a length of about 200 microns, contains jaw (palate) on a matrix of teeth small fluffy in length from 100 to 200 microns and number between 75 and 95 on each jaw higher than males , as will be explained later, it can be said in general that Zubaidi Fish exceeding 26 cm sizes for females.

 

There are several small teeth soft on the inside surface of the throat, pharynx and ends with a thick aspects of a bag called the gizzard oval shape and color of Black and related intestinal. Working gizzard to store food and grinding, especially cortical objects, and contains gizzard inside a short appendages resembling teeth numbering about 100 and size of between 100 and 500 microns.
   Balling and guts inside the abdominal cavity in the front of the body, the stomach is a bag, and a long and tortuous bowel to about 6 or 7 curvature.
    And intestinal polyps byloric caeca complex, and numbering about 500, and covers the stomach and intestines. The liver Cunha bright red and consists of two parts, the left and right for the stomach, and the left is greater than the right. It is the heart behind the gills, and difficult to see the spleen being located under the liver.
    And you see the air bladder near the gizzard, either college are relatively large and dark red color and is located in the upper abdominal cavity consists of the reproductive system (gonads, ovary or testis) twofold, left and right, and is located at the end of the duck cavity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Naturalization

  Fish-Zubaidi single sex, meaning they do not carry the devices male and female together or it does not change sex as the larger fish such as grouper fish Andbed or Sobaity.And can not distinguish the male from the female of color or external shape, especially for small fish sizes of less than 26 cm, but because of the top female male growth, it can be said in general that Zubaidi Fish sizes that increase to 26 cm female.Breeding season  Zubaidi breed in the spring between March and the first in JuneEnvironment     Zubaidi of fish found in abundance in the Gulf region and there are abundant on Indian beaches stretching eastward to Japan

 

Diet

     Zubaidi feeds on Alblanctonat (phytoplankton) and animal usually swim at large swarms mud bottoms.

      Al-Zubaidi is of high economic value of the fish is very desirable thickness, especially in the State of Kuwait and the Gulf General and its price is high, because of the delicious taste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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