''Scaevius milii'', the green-striped coral bream, is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
threadfin bream
Nemipteridae are a Family (biology), family of fishes within the order Perciformes. They are known as threadfin breams, whiptail breams and false snappers.
They are found in tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, Indian and western Pacific Oceans. ...
native to the western
Pacific Ocean
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. An inhabitant of
reefs
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes—deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock out ...
, this species can be found down to about . This species grows to a length of , though most are only about . This species is only of minor importance to local
commercial fisheries
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, and is the only known member of its
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
.
References
Nemipteridae
Fish described in 1823
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