Species: Pareques iwamotoi, Blackbar Drum, Gulf Cubbyu

Pareques iwamotoi Miller & Woods, 1988

Blackbar Drum, Gulf Cubbyu

Body oblong, deep, back strongly arched, head low; eye relatively large; snout overhangs horizontal mouth; top jaw notched, encloses lower; teeth in villiform band, those in outer row of lower jaw enlarged and canine-like; chin with 5 pores, no barbels; snout with 10 pores; gill rakers 17-19, short and slender; preopercle weakly serrated; top corner of gill opening notched; dorsal fin with long base, deep notch between spiny and soft parts, VIII-X + I, 37-41, spiny part high but < head length, reaches 6th soft ray when pressed down; anal fin II, 2nd spine slender, 7; tail fin rounded; scales rough on body, smooth on head; soft dorsal and anal fins with thick sheaths of scales; the lateral line extends to the center of the end of the tail fin.

Adult: grey; a broad dark bar between eyes; a broad dark bar from dorsal fin to pelvics; a narrow black stripe along the central flank to the tip of the tail; fins dark; Juvenile: body whitish; a thin black bar down center of snout; a dark bar between eyes, another from tip of dorsal fin to tip of pelvic fin (rest of both fins are white); a black stripe along mid-flank to the tip of the tail.

Maximum size to 20 cm.

Inhabits deeper reefs.

Depth: 2.5-184 m, adults below 37 m.

N Carolina to Brazil.