''Girella nebulosa'', the Rapanui nibbler, is a species of
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
within the family
Girellidae
Girellidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Centrarchiformes. They may be referred to as nibblers.Johnson, G. D. and R. A. Fritzsche. 1989. Graus nigra, an omnivorous girellid, with a comparative osteology and comments on relationshi ...
. It is found in the Southeast
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...
off
Easter Island
Easter Island (, ; , ) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is renowned for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, ...
, and can grow up to a length of 30 centimeters.
References
nebulosa
Fish described in 1912
Fish of the Pacific Ocean
Fish of Chile
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