Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 16 - 18; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8. Deep red to brown or yellowish grey above, white below, with four darker red to black vertical bands over posterior half of body and fifth short band from each opercle to dorsal fin origin; black blotch just below lateral line in band under middle dorsal fin spines; upper parts of head and body densely speckled with irregular dark spots; free margin of opercles yellow; fin rays spotted (Ref. 33839).

Common Names

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Banded seaperch , English , Australia

Black-banded sea perch , English , Australia

Red spangled sea-perch , English , Australia

織鮨 , Mandarin Chinese , China

织鮨 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Serranoidei

Family: Anthiadidae

Genus: Hypoplectrodes

Species: Hypoplectrodes nigroruber (Cuvier, 1828)

Climate Zone

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Temperate

Location

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Biology

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Inhabits shallow coastal reefs to depths greater than 30 m (Ref. 33839). Solitary and feeds on small fishes (Ref. 33839).

Habitat

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associated