Species: Malacanthus brevirostris, Flagtail tilefish, Stripetail tilefish, the Quakerfish
Malacanthus brevirostris Guichenot, 1848
Flagtail tilefish, Quakerfish, Stripetail tilefish
Body long and slender; head slender, profile rounded; no crest on nape; preopercle smooth; large, pointed spine in center of operculum; dorsal rays I-IV, 52-60; anal rays I, 46-53; pectoral rays 15-17; tail fin rounded; lateral-line scales 146-181.
Light grey above, paler below, yellowish above eye; tail fin with blue-white center bordered above and below by black stripes.
Size: grows to 32 cm.
Inhabits open sand-rubble bottoms. Usually seen in pairs; live in a burrow of their own construction often under a rock and rubble.
Depth: 5-50 m.
Widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific from E. Africa and Red Sea to the Americas: Costa Rica to Ecuador, Cocos, Malpelo and Galapagos.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- TEP non-endemic
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Continent
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 32
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 50
