Species: Cyttopsis rosea, Red dory

D VII-VIII, spines stiff

belly - row of spiny bucklers
Cyttopsis rosea (Lowe, 1843)
Red dory
Body oval, depth > head length; head and body greatly compressed, chest wide & flat; head bones thin and soft; mouth large, oblique, upper jaw extremely protrusible, top jaw bone widely expanded at rear; jaws with a few minute conical teeth; dorsal fin VI-VII stiff spines, 24-30, with a deep notch, 1st spine immovable; anal fin I-II, 24-30, the spine sometimes minute and fused to the main skeleton; pectoral fin 13-14, much shorter than head or pelvic fins; pelvics 0, 9-10, origin before pectoral origin; tail fin rounded; scales minute, smooth to spiny; soft dorsal and anal fins with a bony ridge along each side of base; lower midline from pelvics to anus with large spiny bucklers.
Silvery red; pelvics red, the membranes blackish.
Reaches 22 cm.
On and above deep reefs and soft bottoms
Depth range: 100-825 m.
Both sides of the Atlantic and the Indo-W Pacific; Canada to Venezuela.

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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 + water column
- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Mid Water
- Habitat
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- Reef and soft bottom
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Water column
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bentho-Pelagic
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Pelagic crustacea
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continental primarily
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends North of GC
- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends South of GC
- Also in Brazil
- GC non-endemic
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- 100
- Depth Range Max
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- 825
- Length Max
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- 22