Species: Serranus annularis, Orangeback bass
lower body: white + orange bars
Serranus annularis (Gunther, 1880)
Orangeback bass
Body elongate, moderately compressed; snout shorter than eye; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it; 3 opercular spines well developed, middle spine straight; preopercle regularly serrated, no spur with enlarged spines; gill rakers 15-18; dorsal fin X,10; anal fin III, 6-7; pelvics inserted before pectoral base; pectoral fin 13-17; tail with slightly concave edge, 13-15 branched rays; scales very rough, relatively large, 10-12 rows of scales on cheek; 46-50 pored lateral line scales; top of head without scales.
Upper 1/3 of head and body red-brown, darker on midbody, lower 2/3 white, with 7 short pale orange bars and blotches below; 2 rectangular orange blotches with dark brown borders on upper operculum behind eye.
Reaches 9 cm.
Reef associated - on sand bottoms with rock and rubble.
Depth range: 4-115 m.
N Carolina to Brazil.
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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
- Sand & gravel
- 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 non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Extends North of GC
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Also in Brazil
- Extends N + S of GC
- All species
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 9
- Depth Range Min
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- 4
- Depth Range Max
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- 115
