Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Acanthuridae > Ctenochaetus > Ctenochaetus striatus

Ctenochaetus striatus (Surgeonfish; Striped bristle-tooth; Striped bristletooth; Striated surgeonfish; Orange-dotted bristletooth; Lined bristletooth; Bristle-toothed surgeonfish)

Synonyms:
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Wikipedia Abstract

The striated surgeonfish, Ctenochaetus striatus, is a species of marine fish in the family Acanthuridae. The striated surgeonfish can reach a maximum size of 24 cm in length, but its common size is observed to be around 18 cm. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Predators

Cephalopholis argus (Argus grouper)[1]
Cephalopholis urodeta (Banded-tail coral-cod)[1]
Epinephelus merra (Wire-netted reefcod)[1]
Lutjanus fulvus (flame-colored snapper)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Haemogregarina bigemina[2]
Procamallanus chaimha[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0