A dark stripe and a matching spot mark a large goatfish searching the sand with long barbels.
- Local names
- Ahuru
- Habitat
- Lagoon and reefOpen ocean
About this species
The body is pearly pale. A dark stripe extends from the snout towards the tail base, with a separate dark spot nearby. Long barbels beneath the mouth detect animals concealed in the seabed.
Active both by day and by night, it searches sandy and rubble-strewn lagoon bottoms and passes, less often the ocean-facing slope. Records extend to about 100 m. Its meals include bottom-dwelling invertebrates, especially small crustaceans and molluscs.
- Guide des poissons de Tahiti et ses îles, Indo-Pacific Fish conference Tahiti 2017, P. Bachet, T. Zysman, Y. Lefèvre, Au vent des îles
- FishBase - Parupeneus barberinus
