Description

Dorsal spines (total): 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 12. Bluish grey with blackish margin on gill cover; diagnostic white patch just in front of each eye (Ref. 11482).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Centrarchiformes

Family: Girellidae

Genus: Girella

Species: Girella freminvillii (Valenciennes, 1846)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Usually seen in aggregations while grazing over shallow reefs (Ref. 11482). May also mix with schools of other species (Ref. 5227).The fine mat of comb-like, bicuspid and tricuspid teeth are used to scrape algae from rocks and corals (Ref. 28023).

Habitat

associated