Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 16 - 17; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 12; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 19 - 22. 22-26 pored scales in the anterior lateral line series; 0-13 notched scales in the posterior series. The second dorsal fin without an ocellate black blotch but may be distally blackish, the anal fin pale, occasionally with whitish spots; the pelvic fin pale, and the dorsal fine spines each with two large distal spinules.

Common Names

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Tasseled triplefin , English , Australia

Tasselled Threefin , English , Australia

Tasselled triplefin , English , Australia

Tasselled triplefin , English , Global

蜂翼三鰭鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

蜂翼三鳍鳚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Blenniiformes

Family: Tripterygiidae

Genus: Apopterygion

Species: Apopterygion alta Kuiter, 1986

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Eastern Indian Ocean: northern Tasmania to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Endemic to the Bass Strait area in southern Australia.

Biology

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Associated with yellow sponges. Eggs are hemispherical and covered with numerous sticky threads that anchor them in the algae on the nesting sites (Ref. 240). Larvae are planktonic which occur primarily in shallow, nearshore waters (Ref. 94114).

Habitat

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benthopelagic