Species: Lipogramma anabantoides, Dusky basslet
D: front dark spot, rear base - large ocellus
fins dark, black & yellow edges
Lipogramma anabantoides Bohlke, 1960
Dusky basslet
Elongate, compressed body; eye large, snout short; mouth at front; teeth on jaws, front and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle edge smooth; opercle with 1 short, flat projection; gill rakers long, 11 lower rakers; dorsal fin XIII (XI-XIV), 8-10; anal fin III, 7-9; pectorals rounded, 17; pelvics I, 5, with 1st ray elongated, reaching past anal fin base; short rays on upper and lower base of tail fin thick and spiny; no lateral line; 26 lateral scales.
Head bright rose red, body is brownish-orange, with light lines between darker scale rows; dorsal, tail and anal fins with orange-brown base, yellow outer part and a black margin, a black blotch over 1st 3 dorsal spines and a large partial ocellus at the lower rear corner of the fin; pelvics black, with yellow spots.
Reaches 2.6 cm.
Lives on deep reefs.
Depth range: 10-88 m.
The Gulf of Mexico to the northern Caribbean.
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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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- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent
- GC endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- 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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- 2.6
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 88
