Species: Hypoplectrus ecosur, Spotted hamlet
spots: 4-5 top rear back, C base -2
Hypoplectrus ecosur Victor, 2012
Spotted hamlet
Head and body deep, strongly compressed; forehead straight; snout relatively short; top jaw protrusible; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it; teeth fixed; preoperculum angular, serrated, several small forward pointing spines on lower edge near the corner; gill rakers 17-19; dorsal fin X, 14-15, no notch after spines, membranes between spines not indented; pelvics long, reach to or beyond anus; tail fin slightly forked; lateral line scales 52; soft dorsal and anal fins mostly scaleless.
Pale tan; blue spots on side of snout, blue lines on sides of head and chest, body with thin blue bars; 2 dark red-brown to grey-brown bars on head, a long one through eye, a short one across nape; body with one distinct bar, broad, long and intense, under spiny dorsal fin, this followed by 4-5 small, round dark spots along the upper back and tail base, those spots superimposed on 3 faint bars on the rear of the body; base of the tail fin with a pair of dark round spots, one above the other, pelvics dark brown, with a blue outer edge; median fins yellowish, with thin blue lines.
Reaches probably ~15 cm.
Lives on reefs.
Depth range: 3-20 m?
Across the entire northern coast of the Yucatan.
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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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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Continent
- GC endemic
- Gulf of Mexico endemic
- 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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- 15
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
