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Ablabys macracanthus (Bleeker, 1852)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 15 - 16; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 10; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7 - 8. Has a more anteriorly pointed dorsal fin and more rays in anal fin (Ref. 48635).

Common Names

  • Spiny leaf-fish , English , Indonesia
  • Spiny waspfish , English , Global
  • 大棘帆鰭鮋 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 大棘帆鳍鲉 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 狮子鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 長棘鈍頂鮋 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 長棘長絨鮋 , Mandarin Chinese , Taiwan/Ch Taipei
  • 长棘钝顶鲉 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 长棘长绒鲉 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei

    Family: Tetrarogidae

    Genus: Ablabys

    Species: Ablabys macracanthus (Bleeker, 1852)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Eastern Indian Ocean in the Andaman Sea (Myanmar and Thailand) and western Pacific Ocean.

    • Biology

    Inshore, usually muddy-sand habitat, estuaries and coastal slopes (Ref. 48635). Sways back and forth with current surge, mimicking dead leaves and other debris (Ref 90102).

    Habitat

    benthopelagic