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Spotted Sicklefish

Drepane punctata

Also known as: Batfish, Butterfish, Concertina Fish, Drepane, Jetto, Moonfish, Peppercorn, Silver Moonfish, Spotted Batfish, Spotted Drepane, Spotted Moonfish, Spotted Sickle

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2024
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Adult
@rhart3 · peppers blue on blue, Australia · July 20141 / 5
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Overview

Found over mud and sand bottoms, close to coral and rocky reefs in estuaries, harbours and reefs.

These small family of fish are bottom feeders.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
black spotspots
Behaviour
bottom dwelling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
  • Exact location · 1
  • Country only · 4
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Found over mud and sand bottoms, close to coral and rocky reefs in estuaries, harbours and reefs.

RANGE
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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderAcanthuriformes
    5. familyDrepaneidae
    6. genusDrepane
    7. speciesDrepane punctata (Linnaeus, 1758)

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