Species: Larimus fasciatus, Banded drum
v short snout
mouth v oblique, lower jaw projecting
Larimus fasciatus Holbrook, 1855
Banded drum
Body short and robust, back elevated; head short, compressed; snout very short; eye large; mouth large, strongly oblique, lower jaw projecting; teeth very small and pointed, set in 1-2 rows along edges of jaws; 4 minute pores on tip of chin, no barbel; snout with 5 edge pores; preopercular margin smooth; gill rakers very long and slender, 34-36, longest = eye; top corner of gill opening notched; dorsal rays X + I, 24-27; anal rays II, 6-7, second spine long and stout, ¾ length of 1st ray; tail fin rounded in adult; scales larger, rough on body and head, except before and below eyes; lateral line extends to the center of the end of the tail fin.
Greyish olive above, silvery below; 7-9 conspicuous dark bars from behind operculum to tail base; inside operculum dark; a dark spot on pectoral base; lower parts of pevlics, anal and tail fins yellowish.
Size: attains 25 cm.
Inhabits coastal waters on mud and sand bottoms; not common in estuaries.
Depth: 1-182 m.
Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Omnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Extends North of GC
- All species..
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Temperate (>35N)
- 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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- 25
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 182
