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Hemerocoetidae
Barbel duckbill
Acanthaphritis barbata
A snout barbel probing shelf edge rocky ground
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Elongated
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
SmallBarbel duckbill is a marine fish of rocky ground along the shelf edge. A single barbel hangs from its snout as it moves near the bottom.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Oceanic Basses
- Family
- Hemerocoetidae
- Genus
- Acanthaphritis
- Maximum length
- 10 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Eastern Indian Ocean to Western Pacific.:
Class
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