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Dwarf Sand Perch

Diplectrum bivittatum

Also known as: Blue-striped Sand Perch, Sand Sea Bass, Sandfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2015
LIFE STAGE
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Adult
@darcil · Family home, United States · June 20181 / 1

Showing details for the adult stage. Switch stages to see how it differs.

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Overview

Found singly, over soft mud, and silt bottoms, close to coral, rocks, and jetties, in bays, lagoons, and seaward reefs.

These Sea Bass are bottom feeders more colourful than other Sea Bass sometimes found half buried in the sand waiting for their prey but quickly retreat to cover when threatened.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
barsblue linesbrown barsbrown linesbrown spotslinesstripes
Fins & Tail
filament fins
Behaviour
ambush predatorbottom dwellingburies in sandsolitary

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Habitat & where to find it

Where the adult stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

  • Range · Western Atlantic, Caribbean
  • Country only · 1
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Found singly, over soft mud, and silt bottoms, close to coral, rocks, and jetties, in bays, lagoons, and seaward reefs.

RANGE
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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderPerciformes
    5. familySerranidae
    6. genusDiplectrum
    7. speciesDiplectrum bivittatum (Valenciennes, 1828)

    SourcesWoRMSFishBase

    06

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