Species: Hypoplectrus liberte,
upper flank: thick dark stripe + 3 blotches
Hypoplectrus liberte Victor & Marks, 2018
Liberty 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 19-22; dorsal fin X, 14, no notch after spines, membranes between spines not indented; pelvics long, reach to anus; tail fin slightly forked; lateral line scales 48-53; soft dorsal and anal fins mostly scaleless.
Ground color of head and body pale tan; snout and upper head and front of back darker grey, with a bluish cast; a prominent, wide blackish stripe from behind eye along upper flank to level of anus, continuing to end of tail base as three blackish blotches, last blotch small and vertical; eye ringed with blue; long, thin blue to whitish bars cross lateral stripe and dark blotches behind it, giving jagged edges to them; fins pale, except pelvics blue grey.
Reaches 11 cm.
Lives on reefs.
Depth range: 5-15 m.
Known only from Liberty bay, northeast Haiti
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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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- Reef only
- 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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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s) only
- GC endemic
- Antilles endemic
- All species..
- Caribbean endemic
- Island (s)
- 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
- Critically endangered
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 11
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 15
