Species: Lipogramma flavescens, Yellow basslet
black bar through eye
black spot base soft D
Lipogramma flavescens Gilmore & Jones, 1988
Yellow basslet
Elongate, compressed body; eye large, snout short; mouth at front; teeth on jaws, front and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle edge smooth; opercle with 1 short, flat projection; gill rakers long, 12 lower rakers; dorsal fin XII, 9; anal fin III, 8; pectorals rounded, 16; pelvics I, 5, with 1st ray elongated, reaching past anal fin base; short rays on upper and lower base of tail fin thick and spiny; no lateral line; 20 lateral scales.
Head and body bright lemon yellow to canary yellow, paler below; eye grey; a thin black bar through center of eye, and down the cheek; dorsal fin yellow, with oblique white bars on soft dorsal; a large, round black spot on the soft dorsal base, extending onto the upper back; tail fin yellow; inner 2/3 of anal fin clear, with several rows of yellow spots, outer fin yellow, with a black edge; pelvics white, with yellow spots.
Reaches 3.1 cm
Lives on deep reefs.
Depth range: 202-285 m.
The Bahamas to the NW 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 only
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- 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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- 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
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Continent
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.1
- Depth Range Min
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- 202
- Depth Range Max
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- 285
