Species: Diplectrum radiale, Aquavina sand perch, the Aquavina
D orange border & base, D & A: orange spots
pelvics & A yellow
operculum: dark blotch
Diplectrum radiale (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Aquavina
Body elongate, moderately compressed; eye small; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed; teeth fixed, not depressible; angle of preopercle with rectangular bony spur supporting 1 cluster of radiating spines; dorsal fairly low, X spines, 11-13 rays; anal fin III, 6-8; pectoral 16-18; pelvics inserted under or a little before pectorals; tail fin moderately forked; scales moderately small, rough; snout and between eyes scaleless; 50-52 lateral scales; 9-10 rows of scales between eye and lower corner of preoperculum.
Pale grey brown; operculum with a dark blotch; body with 2 sets of thin dark stripes above midline; usually a dark oval spot on tail fin base; dorsal fin clear, with orange border and base, soft dorsal and anal with small orange spots; pectoral rays orange; pelvics and anal fin yellow.
Reaches 26 cm.
Inshore seagrass flats and sand and rubble bottoms.
Depth range: 10-80 m, usually below 20 m.
Colombia to Brazil; Dominica.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- 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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- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Also in Brazil
- Continental primarily
- All species..
- Extends South of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 26
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 80
