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Blue Maki

Latridopsis ciliaris

Also known as: Blue Trumpeter, Moki

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Adult
@markn · Fttzroy Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia · July 20201 / 1
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Overview

Found in schools as adults, offshore, over open bottoms, some adults do not school and remain around reefs. Juveniles found inshore around rocky reefs.
Southwest Pacific - New Zealand and Southern Australia

They are fished commercially and for sport, considered an excellent table fish.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Southwest Pacific
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Found in schools as adults, offshore, over open bottoms, some adults do not school and remain around reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderCentrarchiformes
    5. familyLatridae
    6. genusLatridopsis
    7. speciesLatridopsis ciliaris (Forster, 1801)

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