Species: Plectranthias garrupellus, Apricot bass
body yellow-brown
white stripe: snout to white blotch under D, white blotches behind
Plectranthias garrupellus Robins & Starck, 1961
Apricot bass
Body oblong, compressed; head large, eye large; snout short; top jaw protrusible; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth is closed, without accessory bone above it; front and sides of roof of mouth with teeth, front with a V shaped patch; preopercle with 2 (1-3) strong forward pointing spines at its lower edge; gill rakers, short, 14-18; dorsal fin X, membranes notched between spines, 3rd spine elongate and with a filament at its tip, 15-17 soft rays, a weak notch between spines and rays; anal fin III, 7; pelvics short, 22-30% of standard length; pectoral 13 (12-14); tail fin bluntly straight; scales large, rough, 28-29 in lateral line; rear bone of top jaw with minute imbedded scales, snout and most of lower jaw without scales; lateral line continuous, complete.
Lower head and body reddish brown, shading to yellow below; chest and underside of head white; a darker red brown stripe from side of snout, through eye to upper operculum; iris white, with a red-brown front and rear center; a bright white stripe from upper side of snout, through top of eye, along upper side of nape and back along upper side of back where it expands as a large white bloch under junction of spiny and soft dorsal fin, then continues as a series of smaller white blotches along dorsal profile of body and caudal peduncle; top of snout, nape and back above white stripe back to the white blotch - brick red; spiny dorsal fin brick red, soft fin translucent, with a yellowish tint to base; tail fin translucent cream; anal fin translucent yellow, front part of pelvic fins white; pectoral fins translucent.
Reaches 10 cm.
Lives on rocky and rubble bottoms.
Depth range: 13-375 m.
N Carolina to the S Caribbean.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Reef and soft bottom
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- 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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- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Continent
- Extends North of GC
- Continent + 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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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 10
- Depth Range Min
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- 13
- Depth Range Max
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- 375
