Planehead Filefish

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 29 - 35; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 30 - 35

Nibbler which is an opportunistic species that search the substrate to bite at larger items or pick up small items, either animals or plants. They occasionally engage in fin-biting or scale-eating of other fishes, and even scavenge (Ref. 40396). See Ref. 42268.

Found on sand or mud bottoms. Associated with Sargassum (Ref. 26340). Adults feed on benthic invertebrates (Ref. 5377). Edible but generally rejected by fishers (Ref. 5377).

fisheries: subsistence fisheries; aquarium: commercial