Gazza minuta

Gazza minuta, the toothpony or toothed ponyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from the Red Sea and the east African coast east through the Indian and Pacific Oceans to Australia and Tahiti north as far as the Ryukyu Islands. It occurs over sandy and silty bottoms, although the young prefer mangroves and silty reefs. it feeds using its protruding pipette-like mouth or using the gill rakers as seives. Its food consists of smaller fishes, crustaceans and polychaetes.^[2]

Gazza minuta
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Leiognathidae
Genus:	Gazza
Species:	G. minuta
Binomial name
Gazza minuta (Bloch, 1795)
Synonyms[2]
Scomber minutus Bloch, 1795 Equula minuta (Bloch, 1795) Zeus argentarius Forster, 1801 Gazza argentaria (Forster, 1801) Gazza equulaeformis Rüppell, 1835 Equula dispar De Vis, 1884 Gazza dispar (De Vis, 1884)