Image: Moonlighter, Tilodon sexfasciatus
A Moonlighter shot in very shallow water at Lady Bay, South Australia, October 2010.
- Photographer:
- David Muirhead
- Rights:
- © David Muirhead
- Common name:
- Moonlighter
- Scientific name:
- Tilodon sexfasciatus
- Family:
- Kyphosidae
- Order:
- Perciformes
Additional information
David stated that "Here in South Australia Moonlighters are very often engaged in daytime cleaning of many same-sized or bigger inshore fishes, mostly rocky macroalgal reef site-associated species. The Moonlighter has a 'station' (often a small elevated rock overhang or shallow reef ledge) albeit much less clearly defined than the sponges or similar prominent fixed invertebrate benthic stations favoured by the Western Cleaner-Clingfish, Cochleoceps bicolor."
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Moonlighter, Tilodon sexfasciatus, Kyphosidae, yellow, white, black, stripes or bands, marine, adult, black spot,
