Species: Kyphosus sectatrix, Bermuda seachub, Bermuda Sea Chub

lower head profile convex
can be yellow, white
fins not dark

Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus, 1766)
Bermuda seachub
Body oval, compressed; small pointed head; snout relatively short, profile pointed or beaked, no distinct hump on forehead; bottom profile of head slightly convex; mouth small, horizontal and opens at the front; the top jawbone slips partially under the under-eye bone when the mouth is closed; teeth immovable incisiform, bases set horizontally in mouth, rounded tips and a curved, hockey-stick shape; teeth on center of roof of mouth and on tongue; gill rakers 26 (23-38; 6-9+15-20); dorsal fin continuous, XI spines that fold down into a scaly groove, 12 (11-12) rays; tail fin forked; anal rays III, 11 (10-12); soft dorsal and anal fins moderately high, 4th dorsal ray 4.8-10% SL, 2nd anal ray 8.5-15.2% SL, front profile of anal fin angular; pectoral fin 13.3-24.1% SL; pelvic fins relatively short (11.8-19% SL), origin of the pelvics behind the base of the pectoral fin; scales small, thick and rough, covering the body & head (except forward of eyes) and soft portions of the median fins; scales present between eyes; lateral line scales 63-81, 56 (50-62) with pores, longitudinal scales 62 (54-69) (the row from edge of operculum to end of tail base, immediately under the lateral line scale row).
Usually grey to silvery, back with bronze and green tones; sometimes faint golden stripes along side of body and on face, under and over eye; fins not dark; often a whitish stripe under eye; occasionally fish, particularly at oceanic islands, can be white, or yellow, with white or black irregular blotches. This is the only species of Kyphosus with such a pale color form. Young grey, sometimes with numerous eye-sized white spots.
Size: attains 76 cm.
Habitat: rocky areas, coral reefs.
Depth: 0-93 m.
Pan-tropical; from New England to Brazil in the W Atlantic.
Note: K. lutescens is a synonym. Known elsewhere as the Beaked seachub or Pacific seachub, or Revillagigedo seachub.

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- Marine
- Marine Only
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
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- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
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- Water column
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Flotsam
- Rocks
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- Reef Associated
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- Herbivore
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- Benthic microalgae
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species..
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Extends North of GC
- Also in Brazil
- Extends South of GC
- Extends N + S of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- 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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- 76
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 93