Species: Gramma dejongi, Cuban basslet, Cuban gramma
front D: black & purple ocellus
pelvics purple
Gramma dejongi Victor & Randall, 2010
Cuban gramma
Elongate, compressed body; eye large, snout short; mouth at front; teeth on jaws, and front and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle serrated; opercle with 2 short, flat spines; gill rakers long, 15-35; dorsal fin XII, 10; anal fin III, 10; pectorals rounded, 16; pelvics I, 5, with 1st ray elongated, sometimes reaching past anal fin base; short rays on upper and lower base of tail fin not thick and spiny; lateral line in two parts, upper part ending under end of dorsal fin base, lower part on tail base, 35-37 + 13-15
Head and body golden yellow; magenta along under center of jaws, throat and base of pelvic fins; dorsal fin yellow, with a magenta bordered black blotch on front 3-4 spines; anal fin yellow, with a faint magenta stripe along outer 2/3 of fin; pelvic fins magenta, with a dark line along second soft ray.
Reaches 4.5 cm.
Lives on reef dropoffs.
Depth range: 10-30 m.
Southern Cuba & the Cayman Is.
Note: Genetic barcodes of G. dejongi and G. loreto are identical according to Victor & Randall (2010), indicating very recent speciation.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Corals
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Antilles endemic
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- Island (s) only
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 4.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
