Species: Liopropoma aberrans, Eye-stripe basslet
yellow stripe: snout to operculum
Liopropoma aberrans (Poey, 1860)
Eye-stripe basslet
Body moderately elongate, robust, body depth at dorsal fin origin 27-29% SL, compressed; head pointed, with nearly straight upper profile; eye moderate size (7.4-8.7% SL); front nostril tubular, near top lip; mouth moderately large, slightly oblique, lower jaw projecting; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it, lower rear corner of top jaw bone with prominent, bluntly pointed, ventral projection; rear edge of preopercle not serrated; operculum with 3 broad flat spines at rear; 17-18 gill rakers, including 5 rudiments; dorsal fin VIII (rarely IX), 12, rear part of spinous dorsal divided to its base, 3rd spine longest; anal fin III, 8.5, rear edge pointed; pectoral 14; tail base deep, strongly compressed; tail slightly forked; scales small, rough, 46-48 with pores on lateral line.
Head salmon, with a yellow stripe from tip of snout through eye to corner of operculum; iris orangish, crossed by the yellow stripe, a thin inner yellow ring; body with lower 2/3 salmon, upper 1/3 yellow or with dense yellow blotches, lower profile of belly and tail base yellow; dorsal, tail, anal and pelvic fins yellow; pectorals clear. Juvenile with salmon head and body, a yellow stripe from tip of snout, through eye to upper corner of opercle; upper half of body heavily spotted with yellow; tail fin yellow, with a large red-brown blotch in its center, that bordered at rear by white.
Reaches 13.5 cm.
Lives on reefs.
Depth range: 89-241 m.
The Gulf of Mexico to the S 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 only
- Rocks
- Corals
- 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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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Continent
- Also in Brazil
- Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- GC endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- 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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- 13.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 89
- Depth Range Max
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- 241
