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Main identification features
- head: dense blue lines
- body: dense blue spots
Snout long and pointed; 1 pair of small hole-like nostrils; back with crest between eyes and dorsal fin; gill opening short, before upper edge of pectoral fin; tail rounded; dorsal 11-12 rays; anal 10-11 rays; pectoral 16-17 rays.
Brown above, shading to white below; body and base of tail with small blue spots, with admixed brown spots on lower sides; head with fine, close blue lines across snout and radiating from eye, mixed with dense blue spots and lines on cheek and opercle.
Size: 15 cm.
Habitat: reefs.
Depth: 2-15 m.
Indo-Pacific; vagrant at the Galapagos.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 15 m.
Depth Range Min: 2 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; sessile worms; soft corals/hydroids; benthic microalgae; sponges/seasquirts/bryozoa; sessile molluscs; sessile crustacea; sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=2; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-90; Latitudinal range=4; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Omnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: All Pacific (West + Central + East); Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 15 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Bleeker,., 1865., Description de quelques espèces inédites de poissons de l'Archipel des Moluques., Neder. Tijdschr. Dierk., 2:177-181.
- Grove , J.S. and Lavenberg, R. J., 1997., The fishes of the Galápagos islands., Stanford University Press:863 pp.
- Hobson , E.S. and Walters., V., 1968., First eastern Pacific record of Canthigaster ambionensis, an Indo-west Pacific pufferfish., Copeia, 1968:861-862.
- McCosker , J.E. and Rosenblatt, R.H., 1985., The inshore fish fauna of the Galápagos Islands. In Key Environments-Galápagos, ed. R. Perry., Pergamon Press:133-144.
- McCosker, J.E., 1987., The fishes of the Galapagos Islands., Oceanus, 30:28-32.
- Rosenblatt , R.H. , McCosker , J.E. and Rubinoff, I., 1972., Indo-west Pacific fishes from the Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama., Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 234:18pp.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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