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Yellow Patch Igelfisch ( Cyclichthys spilostylus )

The yellow stain Igelfisch ( Cyclichthys spilostylus, Syn Cyclichthys echinatus, Chilomycterus spilostylus ) comes in the Red Sea and Indo-Pacific from South Africa to the Philippines, Australia, Japan and New Caledonia to the south to the Galapagos islands. He is in the southeastern Mediterranean immigrated ( Lessepssche migration) and can be found today off the coast of Israel through the Suez Canal.

Way of life

Yellow Patch Porcupinefishes keep on getting near the coasts, in vegetated coral and sponges reefs and seagrass beds at depths of one to 90 meters. They are solitary and nocturnal. During the day, they are in hiding. Pelagic juvenile fish live.

The species feeds on hard -shelled invertebrates such as snails, clams, sea urchins, crabs and hermit crabs.

Features

Yellow spots hedgehog fish can their spines, which usually have three-piece roots, not tilt backwards. In adult forms of the spines of the dark top of white or yellow and the bright side of the abdomen are surrounded by black dots. The tail fins stem is spineless. The fish are 34 inches long.

Fins formula: Dorsal 11-13, 10-12 Anal