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Blackspot bandfish
Acanthocepola limbata
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Blackspot bandfish
- Scientific
- Acanthocepola limbata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Reef fish
- Family
- Cepolidae (bandfishes)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 50 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- On or near the bottom, recorded from 80 to 100 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A long, ribbon-shaped fish with a black spot near the front of the dorsal fin, reaching about 50 cm. It lives in burrows on sandy and muddy slopes and hovers above them to feed on plankton.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Acanthocepola-limbata.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:IttenAT.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.