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Diagnostic Description

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Mottled light gray dorsally, shading to white ventrally, with a midlateral row of blackish dashes, often alternating with small black spots; a vertical black line through eye (Ref. 13442).
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Cristina V. Garilao
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 7 - 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 12
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Cristina V. Garilao
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Trophic Strategy

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Inhabits open bottoms composed of sand and fine silt (Ref. 5521). Observed to share a burrow with shrimps. Omnivore (Ref. 57616).
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Grace Tolentino Pablico
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Biology

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Inhabits open bottoms composed of sand and fine silt (Ref. 5521). Observed to share a burrow with shrimps.
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Rainer Froese
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Importance

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aquarium: commercial
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