Species: Gymnoscyphus ascitus, Alien clingfish, San Vicente clingfish
Gymnoscyphus ascitus Bohlke & Robins 1970
Alien clingfish
Body long; head relatively small, slender; top lip well developed, widest at sides; teeth in 1 series on both jaws on sides, 2 rows at front, slender, conical, with curved tips; nostrils well separated, tubular, front nostrils longer; 4 gill arches, all with gill rakers and gill filaments; sucker disc small and weak, lacking any papillae, connected to side of body by a fleshy fold; pectoral fin 23-25; no fleshy pad on lower pectoral base; median fins short; 1 dorsal fin, at rear, no spines, 7 (6-8); anal fin 7-8, like dorsal fin and under it; tail 6+6; no scales; lateral line present as pores on head only.
Head red above; body with ~7 broad red bars and interspersed red spots on a pale background from behind the pectoral fin to the end of the tail base; tail fin with two red bars.
Reaches at least 3.5 cm.
Lives on rubble & rock bottoms.
Depth range: 231-318 m.
Cuba to the SE Caribbean.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 231
- Depth Range Max
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- 318
