Ochreband Goatfish, Upeneus sundaicus (Bleeker 1855)

Other Names: Ochre-banded Goatfish

An Ochreband Goatfish, Upeneus sundaicus, in Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia, June 2018. Source: Rickard Zerpe / Flickr. License: CC BY Attribution

Summary:

A greyish goatfish becoming silvery on the sides and white below, with a broad red bar below the eye, yellow barbels, reddish-orange spots scattered along the back, an reddish to orange stripe or indistinct row of reddish to orange spots along the side behind the eye, 3-5 broad faint bars on the upper caudal-fin lobe, a broad reddish streak on the lower lobe with short narrower bars on the lower margin of the lobe.

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Upeneus sundaicus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 18 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/600

Ochreband Goatfish, Upeneus sundaicus (Bleeker 1855)

More Info

Distribution	Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, to Shoalwater Bay, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific. Inhabits inshore muddy and silty areas at depths to about 50 m.
Features	Dorsal fin VIII,9; Anal fin I, 7-8; Pectoral fin 13-14; Gill rakers 4-5 + 14-15 = 18-20; Lateral line scales 31-34; Body depth at first dorsal-fin origin 25-28% SL, at anal-fin origin 22-24% SL; caudal-peduncle depth 11-13% SL; maximum head depth 21-23% SL; head depth through eye 17-20% SL; head length 27-30%SL; orbit length 6.1-7.2% SL; upper jaw length 11-12% SL; barbel length 18-21% SL; caudal-fin length 26-29% SL; anal-fin height 16-18% SL; pelvic-fin length 20-23% SL; pectoral-fin length 21-23% SL; first dorsal-fin height 25-29% SL; second dorsal-fin height 16-18% SL.
Colour	Three to six weak, red or grey bars on upper caudal fin lobe (not retained on preserved fish); no bars on lower lobe, fully to partly covered with a reddish or greyish band (lost in preserved fish); a pale brown mid-lateral body stripe from behind eye to caudal-fin base (sometimes retained in preserved fish); no dark dorsal-fin tip; yellow barbels when fresh; body reddish or dark grey dorsally, whitish-rose ventrally; head with red or grey pigmentation at snout and above eyes (body may darken dorsally in preserved fish (Uiblein & Heemstra 2010).
Fisheries	taken in commercial trawls in parts of its range.
Species Citation	Upeneoides sundaicus Bleeker 1855, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 8: 411. Type locality: Amboina (= Ambon, Indonesia)
Author	Bray, D.J. 2020
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Ochreband Goatfish, Upeneus sundaicus (Bleeker 1855)

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