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has 3 spines and 8-11 soft rays. This species attains a maximum total length of 18 cm (7.1 in). The overall colour of the ody is pale grey with a speckling of pale brown spots and overlain with four clear, diagonal brown bars. There is a fifth more indistinct bar to the back of the head
595:"Order Centrarchiformes: Families Centrarchidae, Elassomatidae, Eoplosidae, Sinipercidae, Aplodactylidae, Cheilodactylidae, Chironemidae, Cirrhitidae, Latridae, Percichthydiae, Dichistitidae, Girellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Oplegnathidae, Terapontidae, Microcanthidae, and Scorpididae"
227:. This has led to some authorities suggesting that the majority of species in Cheilodactylidae should be placed in Latridae. A result of this rearrangement is that the only species which would remain in Cheilodactylidae are this species and
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C. P. Burridge and R.W.G. White (2000). "Molecular phylogeny of the antitropical subgenus
Goniistius (Perciformes: Cheilodactylidae: Cheilodactylus): evidence for multiple transequatorial divergences and non-monophyly".
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instead apparently to belong in several different genera and are not even members of the same family, but how many and their exact delimitation is not clear at present. The outlier species have been assigned to
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Ludt, W.B.; Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. (2019). "A taxonomic revision of
Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters".
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Christopher P. Burridge and Adam J. Smolenski (2004). "Molecular phylogeny of the
Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Perciformes: Cirrhitoidea) with notes on taxonomy and biogeography".
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The barred fingerfin feeds on benthic invertebrates. It is a solitary species which is often observed perched on the reef in the daylight hours. It is known to be preyed upon by the
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and this species. The specific name honours Pixie John who lived in
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311:Description
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285:morphologic
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360:) and the
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317:dorsal fin
307:to Smith.
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264:Goniistius
251:sensu lato
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189:Taxonomy
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