Odax acroptilus, rainbow cale


Plate 35 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This medium-sized, weed-dwelling marine fish can be found along the coastline of the south-west Pacific. It has fused teeth which form a kind of serrated beak.


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