Long-fin batfish
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Long-fin batfish ( Platax teira ) |
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The long-fin batfish ( Platax teira ) lives in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific from the coast of East Africa to South Africa , the Ryūkyū Islands , New Guinea and the Great Barrier Reef .
Young fish have very long, dorsal and anal fins. They live close to the coast over sandy soil, shallow coral reefs or under driftwood and drifting brown algae of the genus Sargassum .
Adult fish get a more discus-shaped shape, the fins are no longer so high in relation to the body, the body becomes silver-gray. They live in small or larger groups of up to 100 specimens, in deeper lagoons, inner reefs, and outer reefs. You can often see them on shipwrecks.
Long-fin batfish grow to be 70 centimeters long.
literature
- Hans A. Baensch , Robert A. Patzner: Mergus sea water atlas. Volume 7: Perciformes (perch-like). Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-107-0 .
Web links
Commons : Long-fin batfish ( Platax teira ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Longfin Batfish on Fishbase.org (English)