Species: Paralabrax callaensis, Callao sea-bass, Southern rock-bass
Paralabrax callaensis Starks, 1906
Callao sea-bass, Southern rock-bass
Body deep, compressed, back moderately elevated; head pointed; mouth large; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without accessory bone above it; teeth fixed; roof of mouth with teeth on sides and center; lower gill rakers 18-22; preopercle finely serrated; dorsal X, 13, 3rd spine largest, 2x length of 9th spine & longer than rays, rear margin of soft fin gently convex; anal rays III, 7, spines strong, 2nd largest; pectoral long, rounded, 17-19; pelvics inserted under or slightly behind pectoral base; tail rounded to concave, 13-15 branched rays; scales small, rough; 92-104 lateral scales, 13-15 between lateral line and dorsal origin; rear of top jawbone without scales.
Grey-brown to brown head and body; dense orange spots and horizontal lines on front and side of head; redbrown spots and undulating horizontal lines along upper back to tail; lateral line whitish; often an elongate white blotch on back under junction of dorsal spines and rays; spiny dorsal grey with whitish central stripe & dark outer margin, soft dorsal dark grey with brown spots; tail brown with darker spots on base, rays blackish; anal dark grey with brown spots, spines white; pelvic dark grey, white front border; pectoral yellowish.
Size: 32 cm.
Habitat: rocky bottoms.
Depth: 1-50 m?
Colombia to central Peru.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- No Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- TEP non-endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Peruvian province, primarily
- All species
- Continent
- Continent only
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 32
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 50
