Species: Petrotyx sanguineus, Redfin Brotula
lips fringed
head scaled
3 gill rakers
Petrotyx sanguineus (Meek & Hildebrand, 1928)
Redfin Brotula
Elongate, compressed, tapering to rear; eye relatively small; snout and jaw tips with patches of fleshy papillae; lips with fleshy fringes; front nostril halfway between top lip and rear nostril; preopercle margin overgrown with skin, without spines; operculum without spines; 3 developed gill rakers; dorsal and anal fins continuous with tail fin; dorsal 81-95, anal 63-73; pelvic fin a double rayed filament under preoperculum; pectoral 22-26; scales small, smooth, embedded in skin, on head and body; lateral line on front half of body.
Adult dark red-brown, with bright red jaws and fins; young reddish.
Reaches 20 cm.
Lives on reefs.
Depth range: 4-15 m.
The Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and the Caribbean to Brazil
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Extends South of GC
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 4
- Depth Range Max
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- 15
