Delicious Ponyfish

Marine ponyfish are beautiful to look at and delicious to eat, although they have many bones. Fishermen on the Bangladeshi coast call them Thutuni Chanda.

The English name of this fish is Deep Pugnose Ponyfish. Scientific name Deveximentum Ruconius. They are found in the Indo-West Pacific: Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, north to Taiwan, China, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. This fish of the Deveximentum genus lives in freshwater as well as saltwater. They belong to the Leiognathidae family and have eight species.