Little pineapple fish
| pineapple fish | |
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Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | Cleidopus Whitley, 1945 |
| Species: | C. gloriamaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Cleidopus gloriamaris Whitley, 1945 | |
The pineapple fish, Cleidopus gloriamaris, is a small slimehead of the family Trachichthyidae, the only member of the genus Cleidopus, found in the eastern Indian Ocean, on the continental shelf of the southwestern coasts of Western Australia and South Australia, at depths between 50 and 70 m (160 and 230 ft). Its length is up to about 8 cm (3.1 in).
Predetors are:octopi and reef sharks
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Cleidopus gloriamaris" in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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