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Painted Grinner

Trachinocephalus trachinus

Seabook: Painted Grinner

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Max Weight

Max Depth

388 m

Description

Trachinocephalus trachinus, also known as the Indo-Pacific blunt-nose lizardfish is a species of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Indo-Pacific. Although previously synonymized with T. myops, Polanco et al. (2016) demonstrated that the two are distinct in the number of lateral-line scales and other meristics, and resurrec... Read more in Seabook

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Habitat and Environment

Coral reef

Social Behaviour

Group

Solitary

Conservation status

(LC) Least concern

Poisonous

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Danger to human

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Venomous

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