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SWEEPERS - PEMPHERIDAE
This fish family has around twenty five different species that all live in the tropical seas of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic areas. Sweepers have big eyes and a short head and some of the species have light-organs around the intestine. They hide around holes, caves, overhangs, shipwrecks or shallow reefs during the day. They are night feeders and after sunset come out their hiding places to feed on plankton in open water. The most known sweepers are the Parapriacanthus family, better known as "glassfish". Not much is known about their reproduction, but I presume they also mate before or after sunset like most fish.
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