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Common names: Marine rainbowfish, Rainbow cale, Rainbow fish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from New South Wales, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia (Ref. 6185). Recorded from Shark Bay (Ref. 115274).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.csiro.au/
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Gomon, M.F. and J.R. Paxton, 1985
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彩虹异鹦嘴鱼, Rainbow fish, Marine rainbowfish, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Odacidae (Cales and weed-whitings)
Etymology: More on author: Richardson.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 15 m (Ref. 75154). Subtropical; 31°S - 41°S

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Eastern Indian Ocean: southern coast of Australia: Bacon Island, Western Australia to Newcastle, New South Wales; including the northern coast of Tasmania to as far as St. Helens.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 24.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 6185)

Mainly restricted to exposed coastlines with rocky reefs covered with brown macroalgae and areas with broad-leafed seagrasses, such as Posidonia.

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Gomon, M.F. and J.R. Paxton, 1985. A revision of the Odacidae, a temperate Australian-New Zealand labroid fish family. Indo-Pac. Fish. (8):57 p. (Ref. 6185)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 18 September 2009

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: of no interest; aquarium: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 15.2 - 20.8, mean 17.6 (based on 255 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0002 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00692 (0.00265 - 0.01809), b=3.08 (2.86 - 3.30), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 2.9 ±0.0 se; based on diet studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (19 of 100).

Heteroscarus acroptilus (Richardson, 1846)