Spotted weever
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The spotted weever, Trachinus araneus, is a brown and yellow fish of the Trachinidae family, Perciformes order, and Actinopterygii class, which are ray fishes. It is 45.0 m SL for a male/unsexed fish. The fish lives in a demersal environment with a depth range of -100 m. The climate is subtropical. The coordinates are 45°N - 18°S, 19°W -36°E. The fish can be found from Portugal to Angola or Mediterranean. The fish has minor commerce.[1] The shape of its body is long and laterally flattened, the mouth almost is vertical in the head.[2] The front half of the first dorsal fin is black. It inhabitates at shallow waters to about 100m depth near rocks and sea grass near by, burrowing in the bottom. Just as other weevers it feeds on small fishes and crustaceans.
