[4] They are characterized by their big eyes which are sitting inside the skull and an extraordinary spiny structure on the top of their gill cover (preopercular spine).

Their body has an orange or red colour dorsally with yellow to olive patches on their skin.

[5] The Phaeton dragonet can be found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean along the coast of Portugal and from the Azores to Gabon.

[6] It also occurs in the Mediterranean Sea all the way to Cyprus where it is commonly found and up to the coast of Israel.

The population is thought to be highly abundant and the species is not listed as endangered and therefore marked as LC for “least concern”.