Species: Ctenosciaena gracilicirrhus, Barbel drum, Barbeled drum

head large & spongy, eye large

chin: 1 thin flexible poreless barbel
pectoral dark spot
Ctenosciaena gracilicirrhus (Metzelaar, 1919)
Barbel drum
Body oblong, compressed; head large; eye large (1/3 head length); snout short, pointed, with 8 pores; mouth moderately large, opens slightly under snout, slightly oblique; chin with small central, thin, flexible, pore-less barbel, 2 pairs of pores beside barbel; 21-25 short, stout gill rakers; preopercle finely serrated, membranous; top corner of gill opening notched; dorsal fin with spiny part high, deep notch between 2 parts, XI, 21-24; anal fin with II weak spines, 7-8 rays; tail with a blunt angular point; scales large, rough on body, smooth on head, 50 on lateral line; the lateral line extends to the center of the end of the tail fin.
Silvery grey, darker above, whitish below; inside operculum black, appearing externally as a dark triangle; outer and inner base of pectoral with a dark blotch; fins pale to yellowish, upper 1/2 of spiny dorsal dusky.
Size: 21 cm.
Habitat: demersal on sandy and mud bottoms.
Depth: 10-130 m.
The central west Caribbean to southern 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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- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- 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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- Extends South of GC
- Also in Brazil
- GC non-endemic
- All species..
- Continent only
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 21
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 130