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Rypticus bistrispinus (Mitchill, 1818)
Inhabits sand, rubble and seagrass beds, where it uses dead conch shells and burrows under rocks; more common at islands than the continent.
Distribution:
Western Atlantic: southern Florida, USA and Bahamas to the Antilles and Brazil.
Solitary species, inhabiting sandy bottom strewn with rocks.
Rarely observed on reefs.
Like other soapfishes, it has special skin glands that produce an irritating, mildly toxic slime.
Description:
Dark red-brown above; side pale yellow or cream, with small, dark red-brown spots; belly creamy yellow.
3 spines on vertical edge of preopercle.
Synonyms taxa:
Bodianus bistrispinus Mitchill, 1818
Rypticus histrispinus (Mitchill, 1818) (misspelling)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Serranidae (Family) > Grammistinae (Subfamily) > Rypticus (Genus) > Rypticus bistrispinus (Species)
Inhabits sand, rubble and seagrass beds, where it uses dead conch shells and burrows under rocks; more common at islands than the continent.
Distribution:
Western Atlantic: southern Florida, USA and Bahamas to the Antilles and Brazil.
Solitary species, inhabiting sandy bottom strewn with rocks.
Rarely observed on reefs.
Like other soapfishes, it has special skin glands that produce an irritating, mildly toxic slime.
Description:
Dark red-brown above; side pale yellow or cream, with small, dark red-brown spots; belly creamy yellow.
3 spines on vertical edge of preopercle.
Synonyms taxa:
Bodianus bistrispinus Mitchill, 1818
Rypticus histrispinus (Mitchill, 1818) (misspelling)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Serranidae (Family) > Grammistinae (Subfamily) > Rypticus (Genus) > Rypticus bistrispinus (Species)
