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(Ref. 128868) Petersen, P.0 Danish names and photos and other species information. Pers. Comm. (Ref. 130676) Price, S.A., S.T. Friedman, K.A. Corn, O. Larouche, K. Brockelsby, A.J. Lee, M. Nagaraj, N.G. Bertrand, M. Danao, M.C. Coyne, J.R. Estrada, R. Friedman, E. Hoeft, M. Iwan, D. Gross, J.H. Kao, B. Landry, M.J. Linares, C. McGlinn and …0 FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions. Ecology 103(e3829):1-2. (Ref. 137577) FB-pic-5423-7275 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 1996-01-12 1996-04-06 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Spgre_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Spgre_u0.gif FB-GeneralDescr-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1992-04-24 00:00:00 2023-03-30 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Found over soft bottoms generally with vegetation such as Thalassia testudinum. Prefers turbid water (Ref. 9710). Feeds on marine invertebrates (Ref. 36453). Locally consumed but its visceral organs may be toxic. Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez 1992 Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD. (Ref. 5217) FB-DiagnosticDescr-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2001-04-17 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Upper two-thirds of head and body with groups of small dark brown spots; whitish ventrally; caudal fin with a dusky bar basally and a 2nd but fainter dark bar in outer middle part of fin (Ref. 13442). Randall, J.E. 1996 Caribbean reef fishes. Third Edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3nd ed. 368 p. (Ref. 13442) FB-Morphology-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2001-04-17 00:00:00 2005-01-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 7 Randall, J.E. 1996 Caribbean reef fishes. Third Edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3nd ed. 368 p. (Ref. 13442) FB-Distribution-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1992-04-24 00:00:00 2015-10-01 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Western Atlantic: Honduras to Santa Catarina, Brazil (Ref. 57756). Figueiredo, J.L. and N.A. Menezes 2000 Manual de peixes marinhos do sudeste do Brasil. VI.Teleostei (5). Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo. Brazil. 116 p. (Ref. 36453) FB-Uses-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1992-04-24 00:00:00 2023-03-30 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution fisheries: commercial FB-TrophicStrategy-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2005-07-04 00:00:00 2008-03-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public greeleyi http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Found over soft bottoms generally with vegetation such as Thalassia testudinum. Prefers turbid water (Ref. 9710). Feeds on marine invertebrates (Ref. 36453). Lieske, E. and R. Myers 1994 Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. (Ref. 9710) FB-Size-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1992-04-24 00:00:00 2023-03-30 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle 22.6 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 124486)) Lima, L.T.B., M.M. de Carvalho, M.R. de Oliveira and J.L.S. Nunes 2020 Length-weight relationships of five fish species from Brazilian Amazon coast hotspot estuaries. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 36:870-872. (Ref. 124486) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-5423 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1992-04-24 00:00:00 2023-03-30 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5423 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats reef-associated; brackish; marine