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).
- Recorder
- Cristina V. Garilao
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 7 - 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 12
- Recorder
- Cristina V. Garilao
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).
- Recorder
- Grace Tolentino Pablico
Biology
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Inhabits open bottoms composed of sand and fine silt (Ref. 5521). Observed to share a burrow with shrimps.