Species: Liopropoma mowbrayi, Cave Basslet
yellow stripe: eye & snout
D2 (sometimes A): black spot
Liopropoma mowbrayi Woods & Kanazawa, 1951
Cave 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 bluntly straight; scales small, rough.
Head and body and median fins pink to red; a yellow stripe from snout to eye; tail with a black, white-bordered bar at its rear edge; soft dorsal fin (and sometimes anal) with a small, black, white bordered spot.
To 9 cm.
Lives on reefs.
Depth range: 24-148 m.
N Carolina to the S Caribbean.
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- 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
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
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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
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends North of GC
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
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- 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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- 9
- Depth Range Min
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- 24
- Depth Range Max
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- 148
