Species: Plectranthias species A, White-barred bass


head: white marks, white under eye
body: 4 long irregular white bars
Plectranthias species A
White-barred bass
Body oblong, compressed; head large, eye large; snout short; top jaw protrusible; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it; tooth patch on center of roof of mouth chevron-shaped; preopercle with or without 1-3 strong forward pointing spines at its lower angle; gill rakers short, 14-31; dorsal fin X, membranes notched between spines, 15-17, weak notch between spines and rays; anal fin III, 7; tail fin straight to rounded; scales rough (teeth on on margins) large, 28-46 in lateral line; lateral line complete; scales around tail base 12-22; rear bone of top jaw (maxilla) not scaled; lateral line continuous, complete.
Nape and side of head orange to yellow, remainder white; body yellow to orange, with 4 long, irregular white bars - under spiny dorsal, and the front and rear of the soft dorsal; dorsal, tail, anal and pelvic fins whitish, with a strong white bar at the front of the dorsal fin; in juveniles the dark bars on the head and body are orange.
Reaches ~ 7 cm.
Habitat ranges from ledges and small overhangson walls and big rocks, as well as around soft corals and sponges, and on cobble in coarse sand.
Depth range 90-150 m
Known only from Curacao

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Corals
- Sponges
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Island (s)
- Island (s) only
- Caribbean endemic
- Antilles endemic
- GC endemic
- 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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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 150
- Depth Range Min
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- 90
- Length Max
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- 7