eastern cape scuba diving
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| Scientific name: |
Platax teira |
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| Common name: |
Longfin Batfish |
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| Taxonomy |
| Phyulm |
Sub Phylum |
Class |
Sub Class |
Order |
Sub Order |
Family |
Sub Family |
Genus |
Species |
| Chordata |
Vertebrata |
Actinopterygii |
Neopterygii |
Perciformes |
Percoidei |
Ephippidae |
Serraninae |
Platax |
Platax teira |
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Short Description:
Silvery or dusky, with a black (or dusky) bar through eye and another dark bar from dorsal-fin origin across rear edge of operculum and pectoral-fin base to belly, where it usually encloses a black blotch, with another smaller black vertical streak often present at origin of anal fin. Median fins dusky yellow, with black margins posteriorly. Pelvic fins yellow, dusky yellow or blackish. Body orbicular and strongly compressed, its depth more than twice length of head
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Identification
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Dorsal spines (total): 5 - 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 28-37; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 22 - 28
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| Size: |
700mm |
| Behaviour: |
Large adults live in sheltered bays as well as deep offshore. Commonly found around shipwrecks in small groups and occasionally forms large schools. Small juveniles with floating debris and form aggregations as they find each other. They can be pelagic to large sizes and form schools |
| Diet: |
Zooplankton,algae and bentic invertebrates
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| Distribution: |
Indo-West Pacific , Read Sea to Knysna |
| epth: |
3 - 25 m |
| Habitat: |
sheltered bays as well as deep offshore. Commonly found around shipwrecks in small groups and occasionally forms large schools. Small juveniles with floating debris and form aggregations as they find each other. |
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