Species: Baldwinella vivanus, Red barbier
cheek: 2 yellow stripes
Baldwinella vivanus (Jordan & Swain, 1885)
Red barbier
Body elongate, compressed, oval; head pointed, short, compressed; eye large; mouth strongly oblique; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it; canine teeth at front of mouth; teeth on center and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle margin serrated above and below, 1- several longer spines at lower corner; 38-43 gill rakers; dorsal fin with X, 13-14, third spine longest, all spines with filaments, those of 3rd-5th spines long and filamentous, at least in adults; anal fin III, 8-9; pelvics inserted under base of pectoral; pelvics long, passing origin of anal fin, 24-38% of SL; pectorals 16-21; tail fin deeply forked, lobes with long filaments; scales small, rough, 44-53 on lateral line, 7-8 rows between 5th dorsal fin and lateral line; both jaws and most of snout and area between eyes scaleless.
Reddish pink head and upper body, lower body whitish; two oblique yellow stripes on cheek and opercle, 1 under eye, the other through the eye; dorsal fin pink in female, mauve in male; tail fin pink with yellow lobes in female, mauve lobes in male; anal yellow in male, mottled with blue and olive in female; pelvics pink in female, deep red in male.
Size: grows to 25 cm.
Inhabits deep reefs; often in large schools.
Depth: 20-610 m.
New Jersey to Brazil.
Note: Recently moved from the genus, Hemanthias.
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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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- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Extends North of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Extends South of GC
- Extends N + S of GC
- Continent only
- All species..
- Also in Brazil
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Temperate (>35N)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 25
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 610
