短吻鲾（学名：Leiognathus brevirostris），又称小鞍斑鲾、金钱仔，为辐鳍鱼纲鲈形目鲾科的其中一个种。

本鱼分布于印度太平洋区，包括东非、马达加斯加、毛里求斯、马尔代夫、斯里兰卡、印度、孟加拉湾、泰国、马来西亚、越南、日本、台湾、中国、印尼、澳洲、新几内亚、密克罗尼西亚、帕劳、马绍尔群岛、马里亚纳群岛等海域。

Leiognathus brevirostris, commonly known as the Shortnose ponyfish, is a fish of brackish and marine waters found from Indo-West Pacific to the Indian coasts and off Sri Lanka to China and south of Australia. Like its relatives, the fish is an amphidromous, demersal species which feeds on diatoms, copepods, Lucifer, nematodes and polychaetes. The fish has eight dorsal spines, sixteen dorsal soft rays, three anal spines and fourteen anal soft rays. Fresh specimens possess a golden gleam which fades with dryness.