Blue-spotted spinefoot

Blue-spotted spinefoot
	Two colour variants:; Above—Western Pacific type from Mabul Island, Malaysia; Below—Coral Sea type from Lizard Island, Australia
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Siganidae
Genus:	Siganus
Species:	S. corallinus
Binomial name
	Siganus corallinus; (Valenciennes, 1835)
Synonyms
	Amphacanthus corallinus Valenciennes, 1835; Teuthis corallina (Valenciennes, 1835); Teuthis corallinus (Valenciennes, 1835); Amphacanthus tetrazona Bleeker, 1855; Siganus tetrazona (Bleeker, 1855); Siganus tetrazonus (Bleeker, 1855); Teuthis tetrazona (Bleeker, 1855); Teuthis studeri Peters, 1877; Teuthis teuthopsis De Vis, 1884;

The blue-spotted spinefoot (Siganus corallinus), the coral rabbitfish, coral spinefoot, ocellated spinefoot or orange spinefoot is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the family Siganidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific where it is often caught as a food fish and occasionally as an aquarium fish.

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