Canthigaster compressa
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| Species: | C. compressa
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| Canthigaster compressa (Marion de Procé, 1822)
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Canthigaster compressa, also known as the compressed toby or fingerprint toby, is a demersal Marine fish belonging to the family Tetraodontidae.
The fingerprint toby is a small sized fish which grows up to 12 cm.[1]
It is widely distributed throughout the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean.[2]
It inhabits the shallow sandy to silty lagoons, harbours or channels from 2 to 12 m.[3] Canthigaster compressa has a diurnal activity.
References
- ^ http://eol.org/pages/1012913/details#size
- ^ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/6542
- ^ Lieske & Myers,Coral reef fishes,Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780691089959
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