Diagnostic Description
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Characterized by yellowish color on back grading to white on lower half; head and body with five broad brown bars; numerous blue spots on head, in pale spaces between brown bars; caudal fin with broad white upper margin; dorsal fin with blue and yellow basal stripes; pelvic fins united by low membrane at base of fins; absence of median predorsal scales; side of nape with scales extending forward to above middle of preopercle; longitudinal scale series 80-94; greatest depth of body 5.2-5.8 in SL; lanceolate caudal fin, longer than head length (Ref. 90102).
- Recorder
- Roxanne Rei Valdestamon
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 14; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 13 - 14
- Recorder
- Roxanne Rei Valdestamon
Biology
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Inhabits clear coastal sand slopes, but appears to be uncommon in Indonesia (Ref. 48637). Found in sand bottoms in 20-35 m (Ref. 90102).
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli
分布
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分布於西太平洋區海域,由日本沿岸至澳洲。臺灣分布於南部、綠島及蘭嶼等。
利用
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小型魚類,不具漁業價值。
描述
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第一背鰭:VI;第二背鰭:I / 13~14。臀鰭:I /
13;胸鰭:19;腹鰭:I,5。縱列鱗 81~84;橫列鱗
28。標準體長為頭長的3.9倍,體高的5.8倍。頭長為吻長的5.6倍;為眼徑的4.0倍;眼間距的8.9倍。體延長,體前部分呈圓筒狀,後部側扁。頭圓鈍。口裂向後延伸至對應於眼睛中間下方。頭部無鱗。第一背鰭延長呈絲狀。體呈淺黃色,體側具有5條橙色寬橫帶:第一條由項背部延伸至鰓蓋上,第二條由第一背鰭基部延伸至胸鰭下方,第三條、第四條位於第二背鰭基下方,最後一條位於尾柄上;眼下方另具1條垂直橙色窄線紋,延伸至上颌骨末端;頰部具藍紫色斑點;口角處具伸橙色斑塊;鰓蓋膜具藍黑色線紋。背鰭淺黃或透明,第一背鰭基底具1個半圓形橙色斑,鰭膜具淺黃色縱紋;第二背鰭下方近基部處具1條淺黃色縱線;臀鰭透明,下半鰭膜呈橙色,外緣黑褐色;胸鰭透明,基部具橙色橫線;腹鰭為灰黑色;尾鰭淺黃,具橙黃色C形斑塊。(林上智、林沛立編寫
2012/10)
棲地
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暖水性中小型底層魚類,生活於熱帶沿岸珊瑚礁區或沙礫底上,常與槍蝦營共生生活。雜食性,以藻類及底棲動物為食。