Species: Serranus fuscula, Two spot seabass
Serranus fuscula Poey, 1861
Two spot seabass
Body oblong, compressed; mouth large, rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without scales; teeth fixed, not moveable; preopercle finely serrated, evenly rounded edge; opercle with 3 flat spines; gill rakers 20; dorsal fin X, 12, membranes between spines without a short filament, 10-14; pectorals 18; tail fin 13 branched rays, edge slightly concave (rounded in juvenile); lateral line scales 46-49.
Head and body tan to pinkish; operculum with a white blotch; a series of dark blotches on lateral line, that under origin of soft dorsal most intense; belly and chest bright white; young with a conspicuous dark spot on center of end of tail base; outer edge of the dorsal fin yellow.
Reaches 15 cm.
Lives on hard bottoms.
Depth range: 20-308 m.
S Carolina to the NW Caribbean.
Note: Previously in the genus Centropristis.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef and soft bottom
- Sand & gravel
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continental primarily
- Extends N + S of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Continent
- Extends North of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 15
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 308
