Rapanui cardinalfish
📖 Overview
Overview information for Rapanui cardinalfish is currently being compiled by our editorial team.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 9; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 8. This species is small, usually less than 40 mm SL, semitranslucent, red and lacking stripes or bars or black edges on scales on body sides; dorsal VI-I,8-9 (almost always I,9); anal II,8; pectoral 13-15 (almost always 14); usually a total of 16 or fewer gillrakers (rudiments included) on the first gill arch; 2 predorsal (supraneural) bones; a free edge of skin near the anterior nasal opening; 2 scales between the lateral line and the base of the third spine of the first dorsal fin .
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range 18 - 20 m . Tropical Southeast Pacific: Easter Is.
🌿 Ecology
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