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The ''' ''' (''Latridopsis ciliaris'') is a [[trumpeter]] of the genus ''[[Latridopsis]]'', found off southern [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] from shallow rocky or sandy areas at depths to 50 metres. Its length is between 50 and 90 centimetres and it can weigh over 10 kilogrammes. |
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The is a large fish with a notch in the [[dorsal]] profile just above the eyes, long low [[dorsal fin|dorsal]] and [[anal fin]]s, a deeply forked tail, and comparatively small [[pectoral fin|pectoral]] and [[pelvic fin]]s. |
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Body colour varies with age, being olive-green in young fish, and changing through green-grey to a blue tinged grey in large adults. Colour on the back and head is darker than the flanks and belly and there is a pale line along each [[scale (zoology)|scale]] row. |
Body colour varies with age, being olive-green in young fish, and changing through green-grey to a blue tinged grey in large adults. Colour on the back and head is darker than the flanks and belly and there is a pale line along each [[scale (zoology)|scale]] row. |
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| Latridopsis ciliaris (Forster, 1801)
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The blue moki (Latridopsis ciliaris) is a trumpeter of the genus Latridopsis, found off southern Australia and New Zealand from shallow rocky or sandy areas at depths to 50 metres. Its length is between 50 and 90 centimetres and it can weigh over 10 kilogrammes.
The blue moki is a large fish with a notch in the dorsal profile just above the eyes, long low dorsal and anal fins, a deeply forked tail, and comparatively small pectoral and pelvic fins.
Body colour varies with age, being olive-green in young fish, and changing through green-grey to a blue tinged grey in large adults. Colour on the back and head is darker than the flanks and belly and there is a pale line along each scale row.
Blue moki take a wide range of invertebrate food, including crabs and other crustaceans, sea urchins, worms, and molluscs.
They are caught commercially.
References
- "Latridopsis ciliaris". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 18 April.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Latridopsis ciliaris". FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8