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Vanikoro Sweeper

Pempheris vanicolensis

Also known as: Black-tipped Bullseye, Bullseye, Greenback Bullseye, Hatchet Fish, Red Sea Immigrant Sweeper

Adult
@fishx6 · Gangehi, Maldives · March 20081 / 5
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Overview

Found in schools, during the day sheltering in caves, under ledges, around harbours, and shipwrecks, dispersing at night hunting for food, high above the bottom, over shallow coral and rocky reefs.

This is the largest Sweeper.

Sweepers school during the day, but at night they float high above the bottom to hunt for larger zooplankton.
Several species are triangular shaped.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Body shape
triangle
Fins & Tail
black fin tips

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found in schools, during the day sheltering in caves, under ledges, around harbours, and shipwrecks, dispersing at night hunting for food, high above the bottom, over shallow coral and rocky reefs.

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Adult photos 5

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderAcropomatiformes
    5. familyPempheridae
    6. genusPempheris
    7. speciesPempheris vanicolensis Cuvier, 1831

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    More in the family

    Sweepers (Pempheridae)