Species: Peristedion imberbe, Tropical Slender Armored Searobin
snout plates medium, narrow
pectoral: many thin red bars
pectoral: 1st free ray > fin

Peristedion imberbe Poey, 1861
Tropical Slender Armored Searobin
Head and body flattened below, body completely covered in a heavy armor of 4 rows of bony spiny scales; body not rectangular, dimensions at anus < dimensions at head; narrow & strongly concave between eyes; head long, narrow; bony rim around sides of head very narrow, finely serrated, ends in a small, sharp spine; no spine at nostril, no spine at base of snout plates; snout very long; rostral plates narrow, moderately long; preopercular spine very short; opercular spine short; barbels: no long filamentous barbell; 5-7 thin lower lip barbells in 2 clusters; 21 (17-23) chin barbels in 6 clusters; gill rakers 4-5+20-23; dorsal fin divided into separate spiny and soft parts, VIII + 18-19, both parts low; anal fin without spines, 19; pectoral fin 12 + 2 free rays, 1st free ray longer than main fin; pelvic fins wide apart, below base of pectorals, I,5 rays.
Head and body reddish; eye yellow; fins pale pink with dark red edges; 1st dorsal tipped in white; pectorals with many fine wavy dark red bars.
Reaches 21 cm.
Found on sand/mud bottoms.
Depth range: 137- 457 m.
E Florida to Surinam.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- In & Offshore
- Inshore
- Offshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathydemersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continental primarily
- Extends South of GC
- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- 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)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 21
- Depth Range Min
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- 137
- Depth Range Max
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- 457