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Blue-spotted Spinefoot

Siganus corallinus

Classification

Family
Siganidae

The blue-spotted spinefoot (Siganus corallinus), the coral rabbitfish, coral spinefoot, ocellated spinefoot or orange spinefoot is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific where it is often caught as a food fish and occasionally as an aquarium fish. Taxonomy The blue-spotted spinefoot was first formally described in 1835 as Amphacanthus corallinus by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes with the type localities given as the Seychelles and Java.

Distribution

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