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Sparidae
Blue hottentot
Pachymetopon aeneum
Fifty Five Centimeters Seabream from the South African Coast
Blue hottentot is a marine fish found around Western Indian Ocean. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 55 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sparidae
- Genus
- Pachymetopon
- Maximum length
- 55 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Indian Ocean: known only from Sodwana Bay to the Cape in South Africa.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

