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Amblycirrhitus earnshawi Lubbock, 1978

Description

Common Names

  • White hawkfish , English , Ascension I.
  • 厄氏鈍 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 厄氏钝 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Centrarchiformes

    Family: Cirrhitidae

    Genus: Amblycirrhitus

    Species: Amblycirrhitus earnshawi Lubbock, 1978

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Eastern Atlantic: Known only from four specimens off Ascension Islands.

    • Biology

    Found among rocks and coralline algae (Ref. 7510). Also seen in rock crevices and on scattered rubble to 25 m depth (Ref. 86997).

    Habitat

    demersal