Species: Lipogramma levinsoni, Hourglass Basslet

Lipogramma levinsoni Baldwin, Nonaka & Robertson, 2016

Hourglass Basslet

Elongate, compressed body; eye large; snout short; mouth opens at front; teeth on jaws, and front and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle edge smooth; opercle with a flat projection; gill rakers long 19 (17-20); dorsal fin XI, 9; anal fin III, 8; pectorals rounded, 17 (16-18); pelvics I, 5, with 1st ray elongated, reaching past anal fin base; tail fin slightly forked, with rounded tips; short rays on upper and lower base of tail fin thick and spiny, 4-5 on top of tail; no lateral line; ~23 lateral scales.

Head and body white, grey on nape; 3 broad black bars - 1st bar across between eyes and down covering entire eye to lower head profile; 2nd bar from dorsal origin to bottom of belly, broadening to encompass pectoral base, its center narrower and sometimes much paler; 3rd bar under the rear end of the dorsal fin, same form and color as 2nd bar; dorsal fin grey, with a large intense black blotch on the base of the fin above the 2nd bar and an oval, partial, black ocellus bordered at rear with blue-white at the lower rear corner of the fin, fin grey, with orange margin, without inner rows of pale spots; tail fin with orange base, blue grey rear half; anal fin bluey grey, with orange margin, no inner pale spots, with an elongate, intense low black blotch bordered below by blue-white, on rear half of its base below the 3rd dark body bar, pelvic fins white; pectorals clear.

Reaches 3.7 cm.

Lives on deep reefs.

Depth range: 91-186m.

The Bahamas to the southern Caribbean.