Description (by P.J.P. Whitehead)
Moderate-sized or small fishes, usually elongate, body variously compressed, with large eyes and a projecting, pointed snout; lower jaw 'underslung' and long, reaching to hind margin of eye or beyond. Belly with keel of scutes in most Indo-Pacific species, rounded and without keel of scutes in Atlantic species. A single short dorsal fin; no spiny finrays, no adipose fin behind dorsal; caudal fin forked. Scales present, often easily shed; no lateral line.
Distribution
Coastal pelagic, but some entering rivers in tropics or entirely freshwater.
Recent revision: Wongratana, 1980 (Indo-Pacific species only).
Species included on this CD-rom:
Coilia korua (Dutt and Rao)
Setipinna taty (Valenciennes)
Stolephorus buccaneeri (Strasburg)
Stolephorus heterolobus (Ruppell)
Stolephorus macrops (Hardenberg)
Stolephorus tri (Bleeker)
Thryssa hamiltonii (Gray)
Thryssa mystax (Schneider)