Liopropoma santi, Spot-tail golden bass

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Liopropoma santi Baldwin & Robertson, 2014

Spot-tail golden bass
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Serranoidei (Groupers) > Liopropomatidae (Painted basslets) > Liopropomatinae
Etymology: Liopropoma: Greek, leio = smooth + Greek, pro = in front of + Greek, poma, -atos = cover, operculum (Ref. 45335);  santi: Named for Roger Sant, one of the collectors and a donor of Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History for ocean-related activities..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; pelagic-neritic; depth range 182 - 241 m (Ref. 95858). Tropical

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Caribbean: Curaçao.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 95858)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8; Vertebrae: 24. This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: D VIII,13; A III, 8; pectoral fin 15; 20-21 total gill rakers on first arch (including rudiments); 47-48 lateral-line scales; length of first dorsal spine, 2.9-4.2% SL; margin of spinous dorsal fin moderately indented posteriorly in adults (fourth spine 11-12% SL, fifth and sixth spines only slightly shorter than fourth, 6.9-10% SL); depth at origin of dorsal fin, 23-26% SL; least depth of caudal peduncle, 11-13% SL; orbit diameter, 9.4-12% SL; upper lip with yellow-orange stripe; approximately 13 white, chevron-shaped markings in a series on the ventral portion of trunk; a reddish-black blotch on distal portion of lower caudal-fin lobe (Ref. 95858).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits rocky slopes and ledges. When approached and illuminated by the submersible, it retreated into small caves and crevices (Ref. 95858).

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Baldwin, C. and D.R. Robertson, 2014. A new Liopropoma sea bass (Serranidae, Epinephelinae, Lipropomini) from deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean, with comments on depth distributions of western Atlantic liopropomins. ZooKeys 409:71-92. (Ref. 95858)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 10 September 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 19.9 - 22.7, mean 22.7 °C (based on 3 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01122 (0.00514 - 0.02450), b=3.04 (2.87 - 3.21), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.8   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).