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Scientific Name: Plesiops corallicola Bleeker, 1853
English Name: Bluegill longfin
Local/Bangla Name: Lomba pakhna nil chitra koi (লম্বা পাখনা নীল চিত্রা কৈ)
Photo: Fishes of Australia
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ovalentaria incertae sedis
Family: Plesiopidae
Description:
Fin Formula: D-XII, 8; P1-21; P2-1, 4; A-III, 8 Branchiostegal Rays: 6. Colour of head, trunk and caudal fin dark with numerous bluish spots. A large blue to black spot, subequal size with orbit diameter, on lower part of opercle. Pectoral fins translucent, bordered distally with rustcoloured. Body elongate. No teeth on tongue. Dorsal fin spines deeply incised and weak. Two disjunct lateral lines with tubed scales, one from upper end of opercle to last dorsal fin ray, the other running midlaterally onto caudal peduncle. Caudal fin rounded.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Coral reef ecosystem of Saint Martin’s Island
Environment:
Marine (Reef associated)
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