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Australian Pineapplefish

Reference

IB1259

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Pineapplefishes - MONOCENTRIDAE

Common Name

Australian Pineapplefish

Scientific Name

Cleidopus gloriamaris

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Pineapplefishes have a luminous light organ on the lower jaw.
In the Australian Pineapplefish, this light organ is a bright red-orange colour, the reddish light emitted perhaps serving to attract the small crustaceans on which it feeds.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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