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Oblique-banded Sweetlips

Reference

IB1916

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Sweetlips - HAEMULIDAE

Common Name

Oblique-banded Sweetlips

Scientific Name

Plectorhinchus lineatus

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

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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