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Image Bank - Fishes

Cosmopolitan Spineback

Reference

IB0717

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Spinebacks - NOTOCANTHIDAE

Common Name

Cosmopolitan Spineback

Scientific Name

Notocanthus chemnitzi

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Like their close relatives the Halosaurs, the Cosmopolitan Spineback have a long low anal fin and no caudal fin. It grows to about 1.2 m in length and has specialised knife-like teeth that it uses to bite off the tentacles of anemones, corals and hydrozoans.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia