Description
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Reference |
IB1916 |
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Category |
Fishes |
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Family Name |
Sweetlips - HAEMULIDAE |
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Common Name |
Oblique-banded Sweetlips |
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Scientific Name |
Plectorhinchus lineatus |
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Artist Name |
Roger Swainston |
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Notes |
Sweetlips are similar to Snappers in general appearance, differing in having fleshy lips, and scales on the snout and beneath the eyes. Sweetlips feed, mainly nocturnally, on benthic invertebrates such as crabs and molluscs. Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia |
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