Species: Pronotogrammus multifasciatus, Speckled bass, Threadfin bass
C red, yellow border, angular tips
Pronotogrammus multifasciatus Gill, 1863
Threadfin bass, Speckled bass
Body elongate, strongly compressed; head short, strongly compressed; eye moderate; mouth moderately oblique, lower jaw projecting, top jaw bone without additional bone above; a patch of granular teeth on tongue; preoperculum with rear margin serrated; 37-42 rakers on first gill arch; dorsal fin X-XI + 14-15, no elongate spines; anal III, 7-8; pectoral 18-20 rays, just reaching to origin of anal fin; pelvics - 2nd ray very long, reaching past anal spines, sometimes past anal fin base; tail forked, with angular tips, rays in center of fin may be extended as filaments; 45-56 scales on lateral line; 2-3 scale rows between lateral line and 5th dorsal spine; head and jaws completely scaled.
Head and body red-pink; upper body with ~ 20 thin short irregular dark bars, lower body with yellow mottling; yellow stripe under eye to tip of top jaw, short yellow stripes behind eye; fins red, with yellow edges; soft dorsal fin with yellow spots, rear edge of tail broadly yellow.
Size: 26 cm.
Habitat: demersal, probably on rock, sand and shell bottoms.
Depth: 40-300 m.
From California to the mouth of the Gulf of California to northern Peru, and the Revillagigedos, Galapagos, Malpelo and Cocos.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Planktivore
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Pelagic fish larvae
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- All species
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 29
- Depth Range Min
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- 40
- Depth Range Max
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- 300
