Manila puffer fish
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Manila puffer fish ( Arothron manilensis ) |
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The Manila puffer ( Arothron manilensis ), also known as the striped puffer , lives in the tropical, western Pacific from the Ryūkyū Islands , across the Philippines , Borneo , along the coast of Australia to New South Wales , Samoa and Tonga . It mainly lives in cloudy water, over sandy and muddy soils, as well as seagrass meadows down to depths of 20 meters and also goes into the brackish water of river mouths. To reproduce, it moves to mangrove forests , where the young fish prefer to stay. The manila puffer fish is closely related to the immaculate puffer fish ( Arothron immaculatus ), which lives in the same habitat in the Indian Ocean .
Manila puffer fish are light gray with four to ten narrow brown vertical stripes on the flanks and on the back. The fish are 31 centimeters long. The skin is flaky and covered with small spines.
Fin formula : dorsal 9–11, anal 9–10
They live close to the ground, are solitary, territorial and feed on snails , mussels and crustaceans .
literature
- Baensch, Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 6 Non-Perciformes (non-perch-like) . Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-116-X
- Ewald Lieske, Robert F. Myers: Coral fish of the world . Year Top Special Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 3-86132-112-2
Web links
- Manila puffer fish on Fishbase.org (English)