Kevin Bryant, USA
Info
(Jordan & Evermann, 1887)
Body oblong, compressed; mouth large, reaching under center of eye; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without scales; teeth fixed, not moveable, on jaws in bands; a triangular patch of teeth at front of roof of mouth, bands of teeth along sides of roof of mouth; preopercle finely serrated, evenly rounded edge; opercle with 3 flat spines; gill rakers 17-22; dorsal fin X, membranes between dorsal fin spines with a short filament, 11 (10-12); pectorals 16-18; tail fin edge 3 lobed, with upper, middle and lower rays long and pointed, 15 branched rays; lateral line scales 46-48, 10-14 between lateral line and dorsal origin.
Pale cream to yellowish white, darker above; head with blue lines radiating forwards from eye; lips blue; 6-7 dark bars from dorsal fin base to flank, each bar with a separate dark rectangular blotch on the lateral line, sometimes a dark stripe running through those blotches; a row of dark spots along lower side and tail base; fins clear to yellowish; dorsal and tail fins with rows of black spots.
Source:
Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system
Reaches 30 cm.
Lives on shelly soft bottoms.
Depth range: 11-100 m, adults usually below 30 m.
N Carolina throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
Synonym:
Serranus ocyurus Jordan & Evermann, 1887
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Serranidae (Family) > Serraninae (Subfamily) > Centropristis (Genus) > Centropristis ocyurus (Species)
Body oblong, compressed; mouth large, reaching under center of eye; rear of top jaw exposed when mouth closed, without scales; teeth fixed, not moveable, on jaws in bands; a triangular patch of teeth at front of roof of mouth, bands of teeth along sides of roof of mouth; preopercle finely serrated, evenly rounded edge; opercle with 3 flat spines; gill rakers 17-22; dorsal fin X, membranes between dorsal fin spines with a short filament, 11 (10-12); pectorals 16-18; tail fin edge 3 lobed, with upper, middle and lower rays long and pointed, 15 branched rays; lateral line scales 46-48, 10-14 between lateral line and dorsal origin.
Pale cream to yellowish white, darker above; head with blue lines radiating forwards from eye; lips blue; 6-7 dark bars from dorsal fin base to flank, each bar with a separate dark rectangular blotch on the lateral line, sometimes a dark stripe running through those blotches; a row of dark spots along lower side and tail base; fins clear to yellowish; dorsal and tail fins with rows of black spots.
Source:
Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system
Reaches 30 cm.
Lives on shelly soft bottoms.
Depth range: 11-100 m, adults usually below 30 m.
N Carolina throughout the Gulf of Mexico.
Synonym:
Serranus ocyurus Jordan & Evermann, 1887
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Serranidae (Family) > Serraninae (Subfamily) > Centropristis (Genus) > Centropristis ocyurus (Species)
