Dr. D. Robertson & C. Baldwin
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Caulolatilus dooleyi was caught and identified from several specimens using bottom fishing with baited hooks around the Ambergris Cays, a small group of islands in the extreme southeast of the Caicos Islands chain and around the Bahamas.
Later specimens were landed around Bimini (ARGO, commercial commercial fishing vessel) and by anglers on a sport fishing boat.
This deep-water tilefish species finds marine shelter in rock crevices or at the base of corals on steep, outer slopes and likes to linger over rubble beds.
The animal's head and body are dark white, darker above, and the throat and belly are also white.
Acroporens the body are ~22 long pale yellow bars, the dorsal fin is dark to clear with yellow areas on the membranes that are strongest in the middle and back.
The anal fin is clear, with yellow areas, the caudal fin yellow, to dark with yellow center.
The pectoral fins are also clear, with a dark spot in the axilla, and the ventral fur is white with dark speckles.
The species name of the brick perch was named after "doolc_l'i" as the surname of James Keith Dooley of Miami, Florida, and Adelphi University, New York,
who had researched and illuminated the taxonomic relationships of fishes, as well as worked out taxonomic relationships of the fish families Branchiostegidae and Malacanthiclae.
Later specimens were landed around Bimini (ARGO, commercial commercial fishing vessel) and by anglers on a sport fishing boat.
This deep-water tilefish species finds marine shelter in rock crevices or at the base of corals on steep, outer slopes and likes to linger over rubble beds.
The animal's head and body are dark white, darker above, and the throat and belly are also white.
Acroporens the body are ~22 long pale yellow bars, the dorsal fin is dark to clear with yellow areas on the membranes that are strongest in the middle and back.
The anal fin is clear, with yellow areas, the caudal fin yellow, to dark with yellow center.
The pectoral fins are also clear, with a dark spot in the axilla, and the ventral fur is white with dark speckles.
The species name of the brick perch was named after "doolc_l'i" as the surname of James Keith Dooley of Miami, Florida, and Adelphi University, New York,
who had researched and illuminated the taxonomic relationships of fishes, as well as worked out taxonomic relationships of the fish families Branchiostegidae and Malacanthiclae.
