Species: Stygnobrotula latebricola, Black brotula
Stygnobrotula latebricola Bohlke, 1957
Black brotula
Head and body distinctly compressed, body tapering to rear; snout very short (= eye diameter) blunt, overhanging mouth; front nostril is immediately above the top lip; eye large; top jaw bone narrow and rounded at rear, mouth ends just behind eye; sides of roof of mouth without teeth; some jaw teeth enlarged; no central tooth patch at bottom of gill arches; operculum without a spine; 3-4 well developed gill rakers; pectoral fin 21-23; pelvic fin with 1 ray; tail fin continuous with dorsal and anal fins; lateral line in 2 overlapping pieces; head with scales.
Body and head blackish brown; vertical fins black.
Reaches 8 cm.
Lives in small caves on reefs, often along the shoreline.
Depth range: 2-110 m.
The Bahamas to the Caribbean; Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Ectoparasite cleaner
- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Ectoparasites
- Egg Type
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- Live birth
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Extends South of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 8
- Depth Range Min
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- 2
- Depth Range Max
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- 110
