Species: Axoclinus storeyae, Carmine triplefin
C: female clear, male black
Axoclinus storeyae (Brock, 1940)
Carmine triplefin
Body short, robust; head large; top of head spiny; cirri on head small, simple, 1 pair over nostrils, 1 pair over eyes; no teeth on sides of roof of mouth; three dorsal fins (III + XII + 9-10); dorsal fin soft rays unbranched, except last ray branched to base; anal fin II, 16-17; pelvic fins completely separate; lateral line gradually descending from upper edge of gill cover to midlateral axis, with 22-25 tubed scales followed by 0-2 notched scales; scales above lateral line about as wide as long; scales small, none on head, breast, belly, and base of pectoral fins; total scales in longitudinal series 33-36.
Upper half of body brown or greenish; upper ¾ of body with 3 red-brown bars; 4 rows of white spots along upper ½ of body, mainly between dark bars; white and red bars around tail base, the latter extending onto base of tail fin; breeding male: lower half of head and body is bright red; 1st dorsal fin and tail black.
Size: grows to 4.3 cm.
Inhabits rocks and boulders with abundant algae.
Depth: 1-5 m.
Southern Baja California and the central Gulf of California to southern Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Sessile molluscs
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Sessile worms
- Sessile crustacea
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- 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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- 4.3
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
