WHATSTHATFISH
Bony fish

Yellow Striped Goatfish

Parupeneus chrysopleuron

Also known as: Rosy Goatfish, Yellowband Goatfish, Yellow-banded Goatfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2022
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Overview

Found in schools, foraging for food, over silty mud and sand bottoms, close to reefs.

Goatfish have two barbels extending form the chin, these are used to probe the sand for food such as worms, brittle stars, crustaceans and small fish.
They often have other fish in tow which hoover up any creatures left behind.
Some Goatfish can rapidly change colour and spots that were there magically disappear!

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How to identify

Behaviour
schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
LIVES IN

Found in schools, foraging for food, over silty mud and sand bottoms, close to reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderMulliformes
    5. familyMullidae
    6. genusParupeneus
    7. speciesParupeneus chrysopleuron (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)

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    More in the family

    Goatfishes (Mullidae)