Blue weed whiting
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| Blue weed whiting | |
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| File:Blue Weed-whiting, The Esplanade, Flinders VIC 3929, Australia imported from iNaturalist photo 32265267 (cropped).jpg | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Subfamily: | Hypsigenyinae |
| Genus: | Haletta Whitley, 1947 |
| Species: | H. semifasciata
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| Binomial name | |
| Haletta semifasciata (Valenciennes, 1840)
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The blue weed whiting (Haletta semifasciata) is a species of ray-finned fish, a weed whiting from the family Labridae,[3] which is endemic to Australia where it is only found along the southern coast. It is found in brackish and marine waters in sheltered locations at depths of from 1 to 7 metres (3.3 to 23.0 ft). This species inhabits areas with a substrate of sand with beds of seagrass where it feeds on small invertebrates and algae and the seagrasses themselves. This species grows to a length of 29 centimetres (11 in) SL. It is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. This species is the only known member of its genus.[2]
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