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Gregarious fish; immature ones often occur in large schools. Lives mostly on the outer shelf, but moves inshore to depths of 50 m or less for spawning. Feeds on benthic crustaceans but also on small fish, mollusks and polychaetes (Ref. 3663). Caught as a bycatch, used as food fish (Ref. 35388).
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Beryx decadactylus Cuvier, 1829
Alfonsino |
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Heteroconger lentiginosus Böhlke & Randall, 1981
Masked garden eel |
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Chaetodon dialeucos Salm & Mee, 1989
Oman butterflyfish |
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Apristurus sibogae (Weber, 1913)
Pale catshark |
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Sebastapistes galactacma Jenkins, 1903
Galactacma scorpionfish |