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all year. However, the relative proportions of prey types consumed are very variable from season to season. They have a patchy distribution within their rock reef habitats with the fishes forming aggregations of 3 to 100 fish. Within these aggregations each fish will have a home range over which it
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As at 2021, the catch limit in New South Wales is five red morwong per person per day, each having minimum length 30 cm; and in
Victoria, the limit is a combined total 5 of any "morwong" species, with a minimum length of 23 cm.
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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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The true taxonomic relationships of the taxa traditionally classified under the family
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is of moderate size, the upper rays are branched while the lower rays simple and robust, the highest 2-3of the simple rays are extended and extend to just past the origin of anal fin. The
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species. The aggregations are larger in the non-breeding season. The red morwong shows some sexual dimorphism, with males having larger protuberances on the head compared to females.
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