Species: Liopropoma carmabi, Candy basslet
D2 (not A) black & blue ocellus
C: 2 separate black blotches
Liopropoma carmabi (Randall, 1963)
Candy basslet
Body moderately elongate and compressed; head pointed, with nearly horizontal upper profile; eye moderate to large; 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 serrated; operculum with 3 broad flat spines at rear; dorsal fin with VIII, 12.5, divided to its base, 3rd spine longest; tail base deep, strongly compressed; tail rounded; scales small, rough.
Head, body and tail fin purple, with 4-5 yellow, red-edged stripes; tail with 2 black, blue edged ocelli, on upper and lower lobes; 2nd dorsal fin (but not anal fin) with a black, blue-edged ocellus
Reaches 4.8 cm.
Reefs.
Depth range: 15-165 m.
The Bahamas to the Caribbean; also Brazil.
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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 (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends South of GC
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Also in Brazil
- All species..
- Insular primarily
- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- 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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- 4.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 15
- Depth Range Max
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- 165
