Bony fish
Banded Yellowfish
Centriscops humerosus
Also known as: Banded Bellowfish, Banded Bellows-fish, Banded Snipefish, Bellowfish, Blue-banded Bellowfish, Buglet, Red-banded Bellows-fish, Trumpetfish
ALSO KNOWN AS
- Banded Bellowfish
- Banded Bellows-fish
- Banded Snipefish
- Bellowfish
- Blue-banded Bellowfish
- Buglet
- Red-banded Bellows-fish
- Trumpetfish
LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2016
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Overview
Found in small schools, over mud and sand bottoms, of the continental shelf and its slopes.
Snipefish come form a small family, Shrimpfish and Bellowfish are amongst these. Their bodies are highly compressed and mostly covered with bony plates. As with all this family they tend to swim with their heads pointing downwards.
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How to identify
- Pattern
- stripes
- Head & Mouth
- long snout
- Behaviour
- schoolingswims head down
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Circumtropical
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LIVES IN
Found in small schools, over mud and sand bottoms, of the continental shelf and its slopes.
RANGE
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Adult photos 1
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ALL STAGES
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More in the family
Snipefishes-Shrimpfishes (Centriscidae)
