Hawaiian bristle tooth doctor fish
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Hawaiian bristle-tooth doctorfish ( Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis ) |
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The Hawaiian bristle-tooth doctor fish ( Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis ) lives in the entire central Pacific near Hawaii , the Marianas , Palau , the Marshall Islands , Samoa , the Marquesas , the Society Islands up to the coast of Australia and Pitcairn .
It lives there over deep outer reefs with strong coral growth , down to a depth of 40 meters.
It is rare and lives solitary or in small groups. Young fish up to a length of five centimeters have a blue-orange patterned, net-like pattern. Adult animals have yellow-brown stripes.
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
Commons : Hawaiian Bristle-toothed Doctorfish - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Hawaii-bristle tooth Doktorfisch on Fishbase.org (English)
- Hawaiian bristle-tooth doctor fish in the marine dictionary
- Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis onthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: McIlwain, J., Clements, KD, Choat, JH, Abesamis, R., Myers, R., Nanola, C., Rocha, LA, Russell, B. & Stockwell, B., 2010 . February 2014.