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has 3 spines and 9 soft rays. Its overall colour is silvery-greyish with thin dark margins on each scale and a large black blotch on the axil of the pectoral fin. It ordinarily has 3-4 black vertical bands divided by thinner white bands on the back. Juveniles have 3 wide dark brown to black bars,
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895:. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 9. FAO, Rome.
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639:Carpenter, K.E.; Lawrence, A.; Myers, R. (2016).
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349:Memoir of the life and public services of Sir
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383:Monotaxinae but the 5th edition of
762:"Genera in the family Lethrinidae"
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531:Seal Rocks, New South Wales
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567:Pseudoplagioporus labiatus
281:roundtooth large-eye bream
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315:Swedish-speaking Finnish
995:Nicolas Bailly (2019).
707:. October 2023 version.
579:Transversotrema lacerta
573:Pycnadenoides pagrosomi
555:Haliotrema angulocirrus
499:Cocos (Keeling) Islands
481:distribution, from the
351:Thomas Stamford Raffles
1312:Fish described in 1775
723:"Species in the genus
561:Proctoeces hawaiiensis
525:and from the northern
517:north to northeast of
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249:humpnose big-eye bream
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925:Monotaxis grandoculis
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719:Eschmeyer, William N.
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240:Monotaxis grandoculis
181:Monotaxis grandoculis
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803:. pp. 502–506.
431:Monotaxis granoculis
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223:Lethrinus latidens
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426:Description
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398:Spariformes
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