Evistias
| Striped boarfish | |
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| Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Pentacerotidae |
| Genus: | Evistias D. S. Jordan, 1907 |
| Species: | E. acutirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Evistias acutirostris (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) | |
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Evistias acutirostris, the striped boarfish or whiskered boarfish, is a species of armorhead native to the Pacific Ocean from the Hawaiian Islands westward to the coast of Asia and Australia. This is a reef-dwelling fish found at depths between 18 and 193 m (59 and 633 ft). It can reach a total length of 90 cm (35 in) . This species is a commercially important fish and can be found in the aquarium trade. It is currently the only known member of the genus Evistias.[1]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Evistias acutirostris" in FishBase. August 2016 version.
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