Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Sciaenidae > Equetus > Equetus lanceolatus

Equetus lanceolatus (Ribbonfish; Lance-shaped ribbonfish; Lanceshaped ribbonfish; Jacknife-fish; Jacknife fish; Jackknife-fish; Jack-knifefish; Jackknife fish; Drum; Equetus; Donkey fish)

Synonyms: Chaetodon lanceolatus; Eques americanus; Eques balteatus; Eques lanceolatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The jackknifefish (Equetus lanceolatus) is a small fish, typically between 6 and 9 inches, that can occasionally be found on coral reefs in the middle western Atlantic Ocean, in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Bahamas.
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Prey / Diet

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[1]
Rhizoprionodon porosus (Snook shark)[1]

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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.
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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