Galeoides decadactylus (Bloch, 1795)

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2257

Galeoides decadactylus (Bloch, 1795)

Reference material. Accra, January 1930 (Irvine 24)— BMNH 1930.3 .24.39 (one: 116 mm SL); Prampram, July 1938 (Irvine 266); mouth of River Ancobra, January 1939 (Akpabla A 18)— BMNH 2001.5 .2.33 (one: 172 mm SL) .

Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Canary Islands to Angola: entering estuaries (Quéro et al., 1990).

On average about 12 300 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year ( FAO, 2000), making it a very important fishery species.