Johnius coitor és una espècie de peix de la família dels esciènids i de l'ordre dels perciformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 16 cm de longitud total.FishBase Talwar, P.K. i A.G. Jhingran, 1991. Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries. Volum 2. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Hàbitat És un peix de clima tropical i demersal.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba a Austràlia, Bangladesh, Brunei, l'Índia, Indonèsia, Malàisia, Myanmar, el Nepal,Shrestha, J., 1994. Fishes, fishing implements and methods of Nepal. Smt. M.D. Gupta, Lalitpur Colony, Lashkar (Gwalior), l'Índia. 150 p. Papua Nova Guinea i el Vietnam.FishBase Kottelat, M., A.J. Whitten, S.N. Kartikasari i S. Wirjoatmodjo, 1993. Freshwater fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi. Periplus Editions, Hong Kong. 221 p.Ahmed, M., 1991. A model to determine benefits obtainable from the management of riverine fisheries of Bangladesh. ICLARM Tech. Rep. 28, 133 p.Ganaden, S.R. i F. Lavapie-Gonzales, 1999. Common and local names of marine fishes of the Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Filipines. 385 p.Kailola, P.J., 1987. The fishes of Papua New Guinea: a revised and annotated checklist. Vol. II Scorpaenidae to Callionymidae. Research Bulletin Núm. 41, Research Section, Dept. of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Papua Nova Guinea.Nguyen, N.T. i V.Q. Nguyen, 2006. Biodiversity and living resources of the coral reef fishes in Vietnam marine waters. Science and Technology Publishing House, Hanoi.Rahman, A.K.A., 1989. Freshwater fishes of Bangladesh. Zoological Society of Bangladesh. Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka. 364 p.Ramm, D.C., P.J. Pender, R.S. Willing i R.C. Buckworth, 1990. Large-scale spatial patterns of abundance within the assemblage of fish caught by prawn trawlers in Northern Australian waters. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res., 1990 (41):79-95.Randall, J.E. i K.K.P. Lim (eds.), 2000. A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea. Raffles Bull. Zool. Suppl. (8):569-667.Sasaki, K., 2001. Sciaenidae. Croakers (drums). p.3117-3174. A: K.E. Carpenter i V.H. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volum 5. Bony fishes part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae). Roma, FAO. p. 2791-3380.Silvestre, G. i L. Garces, 2004. Population parameters and exploitation rate of demersal fishes in Brunei Darussalam (1989-1990). Fish. Res. 69:73-90.

Observacions És inofensiu per als humans.

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Anònim, 2002. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY 10024-5192, Estats Units. Anònim, 2003. Fish collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. Royal Ontario Museum, el Canadà.

Riede, K., 2004. Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Alemanya. 329 p. Sasaki, K., 2000. Sciaenidae. Croakers and drums. A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea 8: 621. Wu, H.L., K.-T. Shao i C.F. Lai (eds.), 1999. Latin-Chinese dictionary of fishes names. The Sueichan Press, Taiwan.

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