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Banded bellowsfish

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are rather small. There are four well-developed bony plates located along the shoulder region, and the scales are modified into a coarse, teethlike form covering most of the body and head. The fish are predominantly whitish in colour with as many as five oblique orange bands with dark margins,
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have a dusky to orange colour. The juveniles are bluish grey and have transparent fins and no bands. Juvenile banded bellowsfish were thought to be a separate species because of their very different appearance.
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are set into another hump on the posterior part of the fish's back, and the second dorsal fin is large, equivalent to just under half of the standard length. The
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The banded bellowsfish has a very deep, nearly round, highly compressed body, with a depth which is equivalent to 38–62% of its
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although these bands lack dark margins in the largest adults. The ends of the dorsal,
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Index

Bluebanded Bellowsfish

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Syngnathiformes
Macroramphosidae
Centriscops
Gill
Binomial name
Richardson
Synonyms
Waite
fish
family
Macroramphosidae
standard length
dorsal fin
pelvic fins
anal
caudal fins
circumpolar distribution
Southern Hemisphere
Atlantic Ocean

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