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Bronze sweeper

Characteristics

  • Rarely observed singly, usually in small groups and occasionally in schools with over a hundred similarly-sized individuals.
  • Often in crevices or caves of rocky areas.
  • Nocturnal species, preferring to hide in day time. Reported to feed on crustaceans, small invertebrates and fishes at night.
  • Able to produce sounds by contracting muscles to create vibrations in the swim bladder wall.

Description

  • Body colouration dark brown dorsally and shading to coppery
  • Blackish anterior edge on dorsal fin. Dusky greyish on basal portion of anal fin.
  • Relatively large eyes.

Common Name: Bronze sweeper, Silver sweeper

Family Common Name: Sweepers

Family: Pempheridae

Scientific Name: Pempheris oualensis___(Cuvier, 1831)

Genus: Pempheris

Maximum Length: 22 cm (Total 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)
Bronze sweeper

Related fish

Silver sweeper
Allen To
Parapriacanthus sweeper species