Species: Paralabrax humeralis, Peruvian rock-bass
oblique bar under eye
back - pale oval blotch
Paralabrax humeralis (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1828)
Peruvian rock-bass
Body elongate, compressed; back not strongly elevated; forehead profile gently convex; head pointed; between eyes relatively wide (~ 20% of head length in adults), without scales; 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 16-20; preopercle finely serrated; dorsal X, 12-15, 3rd spine longest, 2x length of 2nd, rear margin of soft fin gently convex;anal rays III, 7; tail concave; pectoral long, reaching well beyond tip of pelvic, straight lower margin, 17-19 rays; pelvics inserted under or slightly behind pectoral base; scales small, rough; lateral line scales 63; rear of top jawbone without scales.
Head and upper body dark grey-brown, with orange and brown spots from head to tail; an oblique orange bar down from eye to corner of preopercle; cheek and operculum with scattered orange spots; body of smaller fish with 7 long dark bars, those in center of body Y shaped; often a pale blotch below soft dorsal; dorsal, tail, anal, pelvics blackish; edges of soft dorsal, anal and tail tips orange-red; tail base and fin sometimes with pale bars; pectoral reddish brown. Juvenile heavily spotted with orange, those spots forming 6-7 dark bars.
Size: 50 cm.
Habitat: rocky bottoms.
Depth: 1-180 m.
Colombia to Chile.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bentho-Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- TEP non-endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Continent only
- Peruvian province, primarily
- Continent
- All species
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 50
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 180
