Species: Canthigaster janthinoptera, Green-spotted sharpnose-puffer, Honeycomb Toby
+/- blue-green lines under D
Canthigaster janthinoptera (Bleeker, 1855)
Green-spotted sharpnose-puffer, Honeycomb Toby
Robust, slightly compressed, inflatable body; head large, blunt; snout long and pointed; 1 pair of small hole-like nostrils; nape with crest between eyes and dorsal fin; eyes high on sides of head; jaws are a small beak composed of 4 fused heavy powerful teeth with a central suture on each jaw; a slit-like gill opening in front of the pectoral fin base; a single short- based dorsal fin at rear of body; a similar-shaped anal fin below the dorsal; dorsal 9-10 rays; anal 9-10 rays; pectoral 16-18 rays; no pelvic fins; no spines in the fins; tail fin rounded to bluntly straight, with 10 main rays; tough scaleless skin, head and body with scattered tiny spinules, no fleshy skin flaps.
Brownish orange with close-set pale blue-green spots on head and body; several short blue-green lines radiate from eye; sometimes short blue line under dorsal fin and along top of tail base; fins unmarked, except tail fin with wiggly blue-green lines on its basal half.
Size: 9 cm.
Habitat: reefs.
Depth: 1-30 m.
Indo-Pacific; vagrant in the Galapagos, western Panama, Malpelo and Gorgona Island, Colombia.
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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 only
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Soft corals/hydroids
- Sessile molluscs
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Hard corals
- Data
- Sponges/seasquirts/bryozoa
- Benthic microalgae
- Sessile crustacea
- Sessile worms
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- All species
- TEP non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- All species
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 9
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
