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Japanese goatfish

Characteristics

  • Often recorded singly and sometimes in small schools.

Description

  •  Body pinkish grey dorsally and whitish ventrally.
  • Red patterning throughout body.
  • A pair of yellow barbels.
  • Caudal fin forked. Lower lobe reddish, sometimes with dark margin visible. Upper lobe white with 3 – 4 diagonal red stripes.

Common Name: Bensasi goatfish, Japanese goatfish

Family Common Name: Goatfishes

Family: Mullidae

Scientific Name: Upeneus japonicus___(Houttuyn, 1782)

Genus: Upeneus

Maximum Length: 16.2 cm (Standard Length)

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Japanese goatfish

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