Diagonal sweet lip
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Diagonal sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus lineatus ) |
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The diagonal sweetlip ( Plectorhinchus lineatus ) is a bony fish from the sweetlip family that occurs in the western Pacific Ocean from the southern Japanese Ryūkyū and Ogasawara Islands via Indonesia to the Northeast Australian Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia .
features
The species can be over 70 cm long. Young fish show five black vertical stripes. Adult fish, on the other hand, have numerous diagonal stripes and rows of dots. The belly is white and unpatterned. The upper lip and the fins yellow, the unpaired black dots. The base of the pectoral fin is red.
- Fin formula : Dorsal XII – XIII / 19–20, Anale III / 7.
Way of life
The diagonal sweet lip occurs in coral reefs at depths of 1 to 35 meters . Young fish are solitary animals that live in protected reefs. Adult fish form small groups or schools. During the day, diagonal sweet lips are more or less hidden under protruding reef sections and at night they look for food in the sand areas between the individual reef parts and in seagrass beds. They feed primarily on bottom-dwelling invertebrates, preferably on various crustaceans . At Palau it was observed that the species spawns in groups at the new moon .
literature
- Baensch / Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 7 Perciformes (Perch-like) , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1998, ISBN 3-88244-107-0
Web links
- Plectorhinchus lineatus on Fishbase.org (English)