Species: Serranus fuscula, Twospot Sea Bass

Serranus fuscula (Poey, 1861)
Twospot Sea Bass
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 18-22; dorsal fin X, 12 (11-12), membranes between spines without a short filament; anal fin III, 7; pectorals 17-18; tail fin 15 branched rays, edge slightly concave (rounded in juvenile); lateral line scales 46-48 (45-51).
Head and body tan to pinkish; operculum with a white blotch; a series of ~6 indistinct dark bars on body; a large dark blotch on lateral line under origin of soft dorsal, another on center of end of tail base; belly and chest bright white; outer edge of the dorsal fin yellow.
Reaches 22.5cm.
Lives around the edges of deep reefs, and adjacent sand bottoms with small rock shelters.
Depth range: 76-308 m.
S Carolina to Brazil.
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
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef and soft bottom
- 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)
- 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
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continental primarily
- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 22.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 308