Leiognathus brevirostris

Leiognathus brevirostris, commonly known as the shortnose ponyfish, is a ray-finned fish of brackish and marine waters found from Indo-West Pacific to the Indian coasts and off Sri Lanka to China and south of Australia. Like its relatives, the fish is an amphidromous, demersal species which feeds on diatoms, copepods, Lucifer, nematodes and polychaetes. The fish has eight dorsal spines, sixteen dorsal soft rays, three anal spines and fourteen anal soft rays. Fresh specimens possess a golden gleam which fades with dryness.^[2]

Leiognathus brevirostris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Leiognathidae
Genus:	Leiognathus
Species:	L. brevirostris
Binomial name
Leiognathus brevirostris (Valenciennes, 1835)
Synonyms[1]
Equula brevirostris Valenciennes, 1835