Goldring bristle tooth doctor fish
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Goldring bristle-tooth doctor fish ( Ctenochaetus strigosus ) not yet fully grown |
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The gold ring bristle-tooth doctor fish ( Ctenochaetus strigosus ) lives in the Indo-Pacific , endemic to Hawaii and the Johnston Atoll . Literature reports on occurrences in the Red Sea , the coast of East Africa , New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef are perhaps based on a confusion with the Indian gold ring doctor ( Ctenochaetus truncatus ).
The gold ring bristle-tooth doctor fish lives in deep lagoons and on outer reefs up to a depth of 45 meters. Young fish live solitary, later they live in small groups or in pairs.
In the course of their life they have three color phases. Young fish are pure yellow, with a narrow, blue border on the dorsal and anal fin, then they get a blue-brown stripe pattern. Adult fish are brown with light spots.
The fish, up to 18 centimeters long, feed on detritus and fine algae coating on stones.
literature
- André Luty: Doctor fish. Way of life - care - types. Dähne, Ettlingen 1999, ISBN 3-921684-61-7 .
- Helmut Debelius , Rudie H. Kuiter : Doctor fish and their relatives. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3669-4 .
- Hans A. Baensch , Helmut Debelius, Horst Moosleitner: The common care of invertebrates and tropical marine fish in the aquarium. Mergus, Melle 1997, ISBN 3-88244-110-0 ( Sea Water Atlas. Volume 1).
Web links
- Goldring bristle-tooth doctor fish on Fishbase.org (English)
- Goldring bristle-tooth doctor fish in the seawater lexicon
- Ctenochaetus strigosus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: McIlwain, J., Clements, KD, Abesamis, R., Choat, JH, Myers, R., Nanola, C., Rocha, LA, Russell, B. & Stockwell, B., 2010 . February 2014.