Species: Antigonia combatia, Shortspine Boarfish
pelvics short (not to A)
Antigonia combatia Berry & Rathjen, 1959
Shortspine Boarfish
Body deep (depth 62-83% SL), rhomboidal, strongly compressed; upper and lower body profiles convex; head small, with radiating bony ridges; forehead profile slightly concave; a distinct crest along nape; eye relatively large; mouth small, oblique, opens at front, top jaw protrusible; 18-20 gill rakers; dorsal fin continuous, IX (rarely X) spines, 3rd longest, 26-30; anal fin II-III spines, 1st longest, 23-27, spines separate from rays; soft dorsal and anal fins with long bases, scaly sheaths; pectoral fins bluntly pointed, with I spine, 12 (rarely 11 or 13) rays; pelvic fins I, 5, spine not or barely reaching anal fin origin; tail fin bluntly rounded; scales with a toothed keel at rear + small teeth, 51-56 along side; lateral line arched.
Pink to reddish, silvery below; fins whitish.
Reaches 15 cm.
On and above the bottom.
Depth range: 68-594 m.
The W Atlantic, New Jersey to the hump of Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Water column
- Mud
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathydemersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 15
- Depth Range Min
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- 68
- Depth Range Max
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- 594
