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Main identification features
- bar through eye
- white + thin chevrons, yellow rear
- soft dorsal fin - long filament
Body a strongly compressed oval disc; snout pointed, short, ~2X eye diameter; mouth small, at end of snout; teeth long and slender; lateral line ends under dorsal fin; dorsal XIII, 22-25, front most soft rays elongated into filament; A III,19-21; pectoral 14-15; scales rough, covering head body and dorsal and anal fins; 33-43 lateral line scales.
Head and front 1/2 of body white; rear half of body, tail and rear parts of dorsal and anal fins yellow; a black bar from eye down; thin dark lines forming chevron pattern on body; a large black spot on upper soft dorsal.
Size: 23 cm.
Habitat: rocky and coral reefs.
Depth: 1-30 m.
An Indo-Pacific species; as a vagrant in the Galapagos.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: hard corals; soft corals/hydroids; benthic microalgae; sponges/seasquirts/bryozoa; sessile worms; sessile molluscs.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=2; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-90; Latitudinal range=4; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Pelagic; 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); Macroalgae; Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 23 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; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;
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- Forsskål, P., 1775., Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit... Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae., Descr. Animalium, :1-164.
- Humann, P., 1993., Reef Fish Identification: Galapagos., New World Publishing:192pp.
- Smith , M. M. and Heemstra, P., 1986., Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa. 1047 pp., Macmillan South Africa:1047pp.
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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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