Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 60 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, passes, around jetties
The orbicular batfish has a disc-shaped body, tall and flat, and swims in curious groups near divers. Juveniles mimic a drifting dead leaf to escape predators.
Did you know?
Tahitians call it paraha peue (Windward Islands) or paraha pereue (Leeward Islands).
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Poisson-lune.
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