Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Scatophagidae > Scatophagus > Scatophagus argus

Scatophagus argus (argusfish; Spotted scat; Spotted scad; Spotted butterfish; Spotted butter fish; Spotted butt; Spadefish; Scat; Leopard scat; Common scat; Butterfish; Butter fish; Argus fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Scatophagus argus, a fish in the scat family (Scatophagidae), occurs in two basic color morphs which are called green scat and ruby or red scat. As a whole, the species is called common or spotted scat. This fish is generally distributed around the Indo-Pacific region, to Japan, New Guinea, and southeastern Australia. They live in coastal muddy areas, including estuaries, mangroves, harbours, and the lower courses of rivers. They are popular aquarium fish.
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Infraspecies

Scatophagus argus var. argus
Scatophagus argus var. ocellata

Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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