Species: Symphysanodon berryi, Slope Bass
Symphysanodon berryi Anderson, 1970
Slope Bass
Body slender (depth 22-28% SL), somewhat compressed; eye large; snout shorter than eye; mouth oblique, opens at front; top edge of rear bone of top jaw covered by thin bone under eye; top jaw teeth small; front teeth of lower jaw enlarged, exposed, fitting into central toothless notch of top jaws; operculum with 2 spines; gill rakers 9-12+ 24-28 (total 33-40); dorsal fin continuous, usually IX, 10, no notch between spines and rays; tail fin deeply forked, each lobe with a long filament in male; anal fin III, 7; pelvics inserted under pectoral base, I,5, long (20-<87% SL), with filaments in male; scales rough; most of head & jaws scaled; dorsal and anal fins without scales, but with a basal scaly sheath; lateral line scales 48-52.
Body and fins orange.
Reaches 25 cm.
Bottom living on deep reefs.
Depth range: 100-500 m.
The central and eastern Atlantic; possibly the western Indian Ocean; North Carolina to the S 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 + water column
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Water column
- 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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- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Transatlantic (East+West Atlantic)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends North of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 25
- Depth Range Min
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- 100
- Depth Range Max
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- 500
