Credit: Illustration by Diane Rome Peebles
Family Balistidae
Description: entirely olive-gray; dorsal and anal fins marbled; caudal
fin lobes elongate in large adults; one or more enlarged scales behind gill
opening; 26 to 29 dorsal fin rays; 23 to 26 anal fin rays
Young:
large darker saddles on back (these saddles sometimes persit in adults); blue
spots and short blue lines in dorsal fin and on upper half of body, becoming
white below and in anal fin; upper rim of eye blue
Where found:
hardbottom, reefs, ledges
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