False puffer
📖 Overview
Inhabit clear lagoon and seaward reefs to at least 25 meters . Solitary or in small groups . Adults usually in pairs, but sometimes seen in small aggregations . Mimic the poisonous puffer, Canthigaster valentini which it greatly resembles. Feed on eggs, gastropods and grazes the substrate .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 25 - 28; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 22 - 25. Ranges from pale greenish to dirty white in color; blackish-brown saddles above; normally with a round dark blotch above origin of anal fin; soft dorsal and anal fins hyaline, tips dusky; caudal fin yellowish . : short and / or deep.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for False puffer is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for False puffer is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for False puffer is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; reef-associated; non-migratory; depth range 1 - 25 m . Tropical; 32°N - 24°S East Africa south to Aliwal Shoal, South Africa (Ref.
🌿 Ecology
eggs, gastropods and grazes the substrate (Ref
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Black-saddled Leatherjacket · Blacksaddle Filefish · Blacksaddle filefish, False puffer · Blacksaddle Mimic · false puffer · hooked filefish · Mimic Filefish · Mimic Leatherjacket |
| 🏳️Catalan | Peix llima mimic comú |
| 🌍CES | pilníkotrn černosedlý |
| 🇩🇪German | Mimikry-Feilenfisch · Schwarzsattel-Feilenfisch |
| 🇫🇷French | Fausse Bourse · Faux Poisson Coffre · Poisson-lime à selles noires |
| 🇮🇹Italian | Falso pesce cofano sellato · Falso pesce palla sellato · Pesce lima imitatore · Pesce lima mimo |
| 🇯🇵Japanese | Nokogirihagi · ノコギリハギ |
| 🇵🇹Portuguese | Peixe-porco-mimico-selado |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Сейшельская паралутера |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Falso Tamborín |
| 🇨🇳Chinese | 假橫帶扁背魨 · 鋸尾副革單棘魨 · 鋸尾副革魨 · 鞍斑單棘魨 |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 4 records indexed .
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