Species: Aphareus furca, Small-toothed jobfish
pointed head
edges of preopercle & opercle black
C very forked
Aphareus furca (Lacepède, 1801)
Small-toothed jobfish
Elongate, fusiform body; flat between eyes; snout pointed; lower jaw strongly projecting; teeth minute, no canines, none on roof of mouth; tail deeply forked with pointed tips; dorsal continuous, without notch, X, 10-11; anal III, 8; dorsal and anal with last rays filamentous; pectoral long, 15-16; scales small; lateral line scales 65-75; dorsal and anal scaleless
Purplish-brown above, blue-grey below, a silverly to orange sheen over body; edges of preopercle and opercle black, with orange tint; orange tints often to iris, edges of mouth, and all of fins
Size: 70 cm.
Habitat: inshore rocky and coral reefs.
Depth: 5-75 m.
Indo-Pacific; resident at Cocos in the eastern Pacific; also at Malpelo Is.
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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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- Mid Water
- Water column only
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Pelagic fish larvae
- Bony fishes
- Zooplankton
- Data
- Pelagic crustacea
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- TEP non-endemic
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- All species
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s) only
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- 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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- 70
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 75
