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Amblycirrhitus pinos (Mowbray, 1927)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 6. White interspaces between first four dark bars bisected by narrow yellowish brown bars.

Common Names

  • Rødplettet falkefisk , Danish , Denmark
  • Grannyfish , English , St Helena
  • Redspotted hawkfish , English , Bahamas
  • Redspotted hawkfish , English , Indonesia
  • Redspotted hawkfish , English , Neth Antilles
  • Redspotted hawkfish , English , Puerto Rico
  • Redspotted hawkfish , English , UK
  • Redspotted hawkfish , English , USA
  • Redspotted Hawkflsh , English , Cuba
  • Kariibi kombits-käharuim , Estonian , Estonia
  • Kariibi kombitsuim , Estonian , Estonia
  • Rotgefleckter Büschelbarsch , German , Germany
  • Krapu tokek , Malay , Indonesia
  • 紅點鈍 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 红点钝 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Zagiewka karaibska , Polish , Poland
  • Halcón rayadito , Spanish , Mexico
  • Merito de arrecife , Spanish , Venezuela
  • Rayadito , Spanish , Cuba

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Centrarchiformes

    Family: Cirrhitidae

    Genus: Amblycirrhitus

    Species: Amblycirrhitus pinos (Mowbray, 1927)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Western Atlantic: southern Florida and Texas (USA), Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean Sea to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Ref. 57756). Eastern Atlantic: St. Helena (?, Randall pers. comm.).

    • Biology

    Moderately common in rocky areas and among rubble, often in crevices and shallow caves. Usually lies at rest on the substrate (Ref. 9626). Feeds primarily on small crustaceans, particularly copepods, shrimps and shrimp larvae, crabs and crab larvae as well as polychaetes (Ref. 7510).

    Habitat

    associated