Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 4; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 7. Identified by moderately long tentacle behind the eye and numerous small leafy appendages on the body (Ref. 48636).

Common Names

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Leafy dragonet , English , Indonesia

Tentacled dragonet , English , Micronesia

Tentacled dragonet , English , Global

Tanzaku-teguri , Japanese , Japan

指背 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Callionymiformes

Family: Callionymidae

Genus: Anaora

Species: Anaora tentaculata Gray, 1835

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Pacific: Moluccas, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Palau, Yap, and Guam.

Biology

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Inhabits sand of shallow reefs, from tide pools to as deep as 30 m (Ref. 1602). Also inhabits sheltered reef lagoon habitats, usually in on algae reef near seagrass beds (Ref. 48636). Occurs solitary in weedy areas and sand-rubble bottoms (Ref. 90102).

Habitat

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associated