URCHIN CLINGFISH

Diademichthys lineatus


External links


IUCN Red List Status: NOT EVALUATED

Media Center Navigation


URCHIN CLINGFISH

Images



Choose images

Diademichthys lineatus (Sauvage, 1883) Diademichthys lineatus (Sauvage, 1883) Diademichthys lineatus (Sauvage, 1883) Diademichthys lineatus (Sauvage, 1883)

Page navigation

Page 1





Table Of Contents


Overview

Biology

Source and Additional Information
FishBase external link
 
See FishBase for additional references external link
Some rights reserved
Some rights reserved

Lives in close association with long-spined sea urchins or branching corals of sheltered reefs (Ref. 9710). Juvenile fish eat pedicellariae and sphaeridia of the host Diadema and commensal copepods; adult fish eat burrowing bivalves in corals as well as tube feet of their host and eggs of a commercial shrimp (Ref. 33619).