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Main identification features
- olive above, pale grey below
- flank - blue stripe
- c: grey + red borders
Mouth a little above center, lower jaw projecting; 5-6 grooves on cheek; teeth uneven, notched; 3 dorsal spines, last very small, under skin; cheeks scaly, with 3-6 scaleless oblique grooves; no patch of enlarged scales behind gill slit; dorsal III, 26-28; anal 23-25; pectoral 12-13; tail strongly concave.
Top olive brown, abruptly pale grey below, a pale blue stripe (with orange upper border) front the pectoral to the tail; grooves on cheek blue; scales on upper body with blue dots (at front) or blue lines (at rear); skin between scales on lower body dark; blue-edged orange stripe from lower eye to lower edge of pectoral base; tail blue-grey with upper and lower borders red.
Size: 35 cm.
Habitat: rocky reefs.
Depth: 15-200 m.
Indo-Pacific; possibly resident here at, Cocos and the Galapagos.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 200 m.
Depth Range Min: 15 m.
Diet: zooplankton; pelagic fish larvae.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=6; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-87; Latitudinal range=8; Longitudinal range=6.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Planktivore.
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: 35 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Mid Water; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;
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- Garrison, G., 2000., Peces de la Isla del Coco., Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad:393.
- Garrison, V. H., 1996., New records of fishes at Isla del Coco, Costa Rica., Bull. Mar. Sci., 58:861-864.
- Grove , J.S. and Lavenberg, R. J., 1997., The fishes of the Galápagos islands., Stanford University Press:863 pp.
- Randall , J.E. , Matsuura , K. and Zama, A., 1978., A revision of the triggerfish genus Xanthichthys, with description of a new species., Bull. Mar. Sci., 28:688-706.
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