Species: Liopropoma eukrines, Wrasse basslet
snout to C: dark red- brown stripe edged with yellow
Liopropoma eukrines (Starck & Courtenay, 1962)
Wrasse 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 VIII, 12.5, divided to its base, 3rd spine longest; tail base deep, strongly compressed; tail rounded; scales small, rough.
Head and body pale yellow-brown to brownish red; a dark brown to red-brown stripe from the snout, through the eye and onto the tail, narrow at the front, broadening to a large triangle on the tail fin, that stripe edged above and below by thin yellow stripes; tail with thin white rear edge. Young yellow with a black stripe.
Reaches 13 cm.
Reefs.
Depth range: 20-150 m.
N Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico.
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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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- 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..
- Extends North of GC
- Continent
- GC endemic
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- 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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- 13
- Depth Range Min
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- 20
- Depth Range Max
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- 150
