Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 9. Gill rakers 1 + 1 + 7.

Common Names

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垂帶似天竺鯛 , Cantonese , Hong Kong

大炮疏蘿 , Cantonese , Hong Kong

大舅父 , Cantonese , Hong Kong

Yokosuji-ishimochi , Japanese , Japan

垂带天竺鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

垂帶天竺鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , China

拟双带天竺鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

擬雙帶天竺鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , Taiwan/Ch Taipei

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Kurtiformes

Family: Apogonidae

Genus: Apogonichthyoides

Species: Apogonichthyoides cathetogramma (Tanaka, 1917)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Pacific: Kanagawa Prefecture southward to Ryukyu Islands, East China Sea and the Philippines.

Biology

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Found in sandy-muddy bottoms around rocky reefs (Ref. 41299).

Habitat

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neritic