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Canthigaster rostrata - Caribbean sharpnose-puffer
| The Caribbean sharpnose puffer has a dark green-brown upper body and a white to gold underside that has bluish dots. Its mouth and tail fin base have bright blue lines and its goldish tail has dark edges. Sharpnose puffers grow to about 4 inches and usually feed on invertebrates and tips of seagrasses. They are found on coral reefs and in seagrass beds at depths between 5 and 100 feet.
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| Distribution, Stock Structure and Migration |
| Western Central Atlantic: South Carolina, USA and Bermuda to Tobago and the Lesser Antilles. All Canthigaster specimens so far recorded from Madeira belong to Canthigaster capistrata.
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| Habitat |
| Inhabits reefs and marginal habitats such as seagrass beds.
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| Diet |
| Diet consists of seagrass, sponges, crabs and other crustaceans, mollusks, polychaete worms, sea urchins, starfishes, hydroids and algae.
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| Quick Fact |
| Sharpnose puffers have fused teeth and powerful jaws to crush the hard shells of some invertebrates.
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