Species: Hypoplectrus randallorum, Tan hamlet
pectoral base: black spot
tail base: +/- black saddle
Hypoplectrus randallorum Lobel, 2011
Tan hamlet
Head and body deep, strongly compressed; forehead straight; snout relatively short; top jaw protrusible; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it; teeth fixed; preoperculum angular, serrated, several small forward pointing spines on lower edge near the corner; gill rakers 17-23; dorsal fin X, 14-17, no notch after spines, membranes between spines not indented; pelvics long, reach to or beyond anus; tail fin slightly forked; lateral line scales 48-53; soft dorsal and anal fins mostly scaleless.
Brown to red-brown above, yellow-brown below; a large oblique black blotch from eye to front of top jaw; a black spot on the base of the pectoral fin; usually a large black saddle on the top of the tail base; dorsal fin brown, tail, anal and pelvics yellow-brown, tail sometimes with dark stripes along the top and bottom borders; iris yellowish.
Reaches 13 cm.
Lives on reefs.
Depth range: 3-15 m.
The Florida Keys to the Caribbean.
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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 associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- 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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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- All species
- Insular primarily
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- 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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- 13
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 15
