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The fish is equipped with a parrot-like beaked shaped mouth to scrape algae from corals. Inhabits shallow lagoons and reefs. Solitary but sometimes swims in small schools. Female lays its eggs on the surface and emits grunts to attract the male; once hatched the little fish go back to the depths. [2] Herbivorous 70 cm. Commercial fish.
The wildlife of Mauritius consists of its flora and fauna. Mauritius is located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar.Due to its isolation, it has a relatively low diversity of wildlife; however, a high proportion of these are endemic species occurring nowhere else in the world.
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
A fairly large marine fish for the aquarium with a royal blue body, yellow tail, and black palette design on their body. A star on the silver screen, as Dory in the Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo .
This is a list of marine fish pursued by recreational anglers. African pompano; African threadfish; Archosargus probatocephalus; Arripis trutta; Atlantic Spanish mackerel; Australasian snapper; Bar jack; Barcheek trevally; Bigeye trevally; Black drum; Black grouper; Black-banded trevally; Blacktip trevally; Bludger (fish) Blue trevally; Bluefin ...
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The identity of the person that the specific name honours is not given by Black and Schneider but the type specimen was in the collection of the Museo Meyeri Lugduni Batavorum or Meyer’s Museum in Leiden, Netherlands. This Meyer could have been Johan Frederik Meijer, who was a "bookkeeper" at Ambon Island and who had kept a small natural ...
The filefish (Monacanthidae) are a diverse family of tropical to subtropical tetraodontiform marine fish, which are also known as foolfish, leatherjackets or shingles. They live in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Filefish are closely related to triggerfish, pufferfish and trunkfish.