convict fish


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Noun1.convict fish - greenling with whitish body marked with black bandsconvict fish - greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
convictfish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling
greenling - food fish of the northern Pacific
genus Oxylebius, Oxylebius - a genus of Hexagrammidae
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Moltzer) was waiting for the emergence of a Pholidichthys swarm from its burrow and caught on film a shrimp, Periclimenes tenuipes, which apparently was also waiting for the juveniles to emerge, catch and eat a juvenile convict fish. Of the numerous swarms we observed, only once did one of us (EC) witness a serranid, Cephalopholis cyanostigma, watch a large, elongated swarm of juvenile Pholidichthys, then dart into the swarm, catch one fish and eat it.
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Different forms, but all appealing to the convict fish we sought.
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