Species: Jeboehlkia gladifer, Bladefin bass
red to white, fin edges white
red bars: D to A, C base
Jeboehlkia gladifer Robins, 1967
Bladefin bass
Body moderately elongate and compressed; head pointed; eye large; front nostril tubular, near top lip; mouth moderately large, slightly oblique, lower jaw projecting; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, with accessory bone above it; rear edge of preopercle finely serrated, with 3 forward pointing spines below; operculum with 3 spines at rear, central one largest; 9+1+16 long, slender gill rakers; dorsal fin with VIII spines (1st minute and buried, 2nd a long blade, membranes deeply indented between spines), 9 rays, strongly notched; anal fin III, 7; pectoral 15; pelvics I, 5, 1st two rays very long; tail fin rounded; scales small, weakly rough, head with scales on cheeks and opercle ; lateral line absent; lateral scale rows ~65.
Head and body white to pink to reddish; iris red; upper half of head and nape red; a white stripe along the centerline of the head from the top lip to the long, 2ndt dorsal spine, which is white; a broad red bar across the soft dorsal fin down the body and across the anal fin, those two fins with white edges; pelvic fins white; tail fin red, with a white rear border.
Reaches 7.8 cm.
Lives on deep reefs.
Depth range: 100-395 m.
South Carolina to the southern Caribbean.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- 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
- 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 endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Island (s)
- GC endemic
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- 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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- 7.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 100
- Depth Range Max
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- 395
