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Smith, 1980) morwongs are found in the south eastern
Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean off southern Africa and the eastern Pacific Ocean off Peru and Chile. They are typically coastal fishes of rocky areas where they feed on benthic invertebrates.
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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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increases in height from the front spine to the sixth spine and after that the spines get shorter, there are 17-18 spines and 22-31 soft rays in the dorsal fin, while the
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morwongs are characterised by having an ovoid, compressed body and a slightly sloped dorsal profile of the head. The continuous
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have 14 rays with the lower 6–7 rays being simple and robust. They have 46-56 scales along the
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meaning "finger", a reference to the long, unbranched lower rays of the pectoral fins.
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335:Chirodactylus jessicalenorum
305:Chirodactylus brachydactylus
821:Taxa named by Theodore Gill
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266:Cheilodactylus spectabilis
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218:Cheilodactylus variegatus
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320:Chirodactylus grandis
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412:References
390:C. grandis
366:dorsal fin
238:C. grandis
214:C. antonii
206:C. grandis
170:of marine
132:T. N. Gill
311:G. Cuvier
270:monophyly
71:Kingdom:
65:Eukaryota
826:Latridae
660:Q2167160
654:Wikidata
620:FishBase
588:4 August
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370:anal fin
285:dactylus
274:Latridae
262:red moki
189:Taxonomy
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328:, 1860)
326:Günther
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291:Species
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250:Genetic
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134:, 1862
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