Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Siganidae > Siganus > Siganus argenteus

Siganus argenteus (Streamlined spinefoot; Streaked-spine foot; Spinefoot; Silver spinefoot; Silver rabbitfish; Schooling rabbitfish; Roman-nose spinefoot; Rabbitfish; Rabbitfaced spinefoot; Rabbitface spinefoot; Forktail rabbitfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The streamlined spinefoot, Siganus argenteus, is a species of rabbitfish. It grows to 20 to 40 cm long, and lives in shallow areas of the Indo-Pacific, typically ranging from 2 to 40 m deep. Like all rabbitfish, it has venomous spines on most of its fins.
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Protected Areas

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

Predators

Epinephelus merra (Wire-netted reefcod)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hemiurus sigani[2]
Hexangium sigani[2]
Sclerocollum rubrimaris[2]

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.
♦ 2Gibson, 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