Little pineapple fish

pineapple fish
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beryciformes
Family:	Trachichthyidae
Genus:	Cleidopus Whitley, 1945
Species:	C. gloriamaris
Binomial name
Cleidopus gloriamaris Whitley, 1945

The pineapple fish, Cleidopus gloriamaris, is a small slimehead of the family Trachichthyidae, the only member of the genus Cleidopus, found in the eastern Indian Ocean, on the continental shelf of the southwestern coasts of Western Australia and South Australia, at depths between 50 and 70 m (160 and 230 ft). Its length is up to about 8 cm (3.1 in).
Predetors are:octopi and reef sharks

References

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cleidopus gloriamaris". FishBase. October 2012 version.