Little pineapple fish
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Genus: | Cleidopus Whitley, 1945
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Species: | C. gloriamaris
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Cleidopus gloriamaris Whitley, 1945
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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.