Species: Axoclinus lucillae, Panama triplefin
Axoclinus lucillae Fowler, 1944
Panama triplefin
Body short, robust; head large; 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); dorsal fin soft rays unbranched, except last 1-2 branched to base; anal fin II, 17; pelvic fins completely separate; lateral line gradually descending from upper edge of gill cover to midlateral axis, with 19-22 tubed scales followed by ~12 notched scales; scales above lateral line about twice as wide as long; scales small, none on head, breast, belly, and base of pectoral fins; total scales in longitudinal series 33-34.
Greenish on back, red below; narrow dark brown bar below eye, a brown stripe from eye to tip of top jaw; three broad brown bars or H form double bars on side of body; pectoral fins with several brownish bars; tail base with pearl-white bar followed by intense black bar; tail fin with narrow red bar at base and a narrow white bar outside that and the outer ~ ½ of fin blackish; male: colors more intense.
Size: reaches 3 cm.
Habitat: common in rocky shallows.
Depth: 1-20 m.
Central Mexico to northern Peru.
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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)
- Rocks
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- 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)
- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- All species
- Continent only
- Mexican + Panamic provinces endemic
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
