Description

Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 13. Lateral line scales often 53, each scale with a backward directed spine that extends beyond rear margin of scale, especially along the caudal peduncle. Interorbital width 9% or more of head length.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei

Family: Platycephalidae

Genus: Grammoplites

Species: Grammoplites scaber (Linnaeus, 1758)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Taken by trawling over mud and sand at depths to about 55 m (Ref. 9790). Juveniles may enter brackish water.

Habitat

brackish