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Common Name: kanda
Synonyms and Other Names: kanda mullet, Australian mullet, summer mullet
Taxonomy: available through 
Native Range:
Indo-Pacific from East Africa and the Red Sea to southern Japan, Micronesia, and the Marquesas.
Introduced to Oahu, Hawaii in 1955 (Hourigan 1989); inadvertently stocked with Marquesan sardines (Randall 1987). It has established and spread to all islands of Hawaii (Mundy 2005).
Ecology: Found in estuaries (Mundy 2005).
Means of Introduction: Inadvertenly stocked along with a shipment of Marquesan sardines from the Marquesas in 1955 (Randall 1987).
Status: Established.
Impact of Introduction: Randall (1987) suggests that the kanda may be competing with a commercially important mullet, Mugil cephalus in Hawaii.
Remarks:
Mundy, B. C. 2005. Checklist of Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Zoology, Number 6.
Randall, J. E. 1987. Introductions of marine fishes to the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of Marine Science 41: 490-502.
Other Resources:
FishBase Fact Sheet
Author: Pamela J. Schofield
Revision Date: 4/24/2006 Citation for this information:
Pamela J. Schofield. 2009. Valamugil engeli. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
<http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=790> Revision Date: 4/24/2006
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