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Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Coper_u1.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Coper_u1.jpg FB-GeneralDescr-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-07-24 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=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Occurs in schools near large coral columns and heads. Has been reared in captivity (Ref. 35408). Hovers above bottom in caves and shaded areas in reefs (Ref. 26938). Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray 1986 A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251) FB-DiagnosticDescr-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1997-12-16 00:00:00 2014-01-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Translucent orangish gray dorsally shading to violet gray ventrally; 2 diffuse orange lines running posteriorly from eye; dorsal fin rays red (Ref. 13442). Cervigón, F. 1994 Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 3. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 295 p. (Ref. 13628) FB-Morphology-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Cristina V. Garilao 1997-12-16 00:00:00 2014-01-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Dorsal spines (total): 6; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 11 Cervigón, F. 1994 Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 3. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 295 p. (Ref. 13628) FB-Distribution-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-02 00:00:00 2025-11-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Migration Western Central Atlantic: Florida (USA), Bermuda, and Bahamas to northern South America, including the Lesser Antilles (Ref. 7251). Also Antilles (Ref. 26938). Cervigón, F. 1994 Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 3. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 295 p. (Ref. 13628) FB-Uses-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-07-24 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=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial Burgess, W.E., H.R. Axelrod and R.E. Hunziker III 1990 Dr. Burgess's atlas of marine aquarium fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey. 768 p. Burgess, W.E., H.R. Axelrod and R.E. Hunziker III 1990 Dr. Burgess's atlas of marine aquarium fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Neptune City, New Jersey. 768 p. FB-LifeCycle-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Philip Munday 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-07-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=3848&StockCode=4044 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Oviparous, demersal spawner (Ref. 101194). Both male and female spawn with many individuals loosely organized into a social hierarchy (Ref. 240). Sex reversal is completed in 9 days (Ref. 34185). Also Ref. 32179, 103751). Robertson, D.R. and G. Justines 1982 Protogynous hermaphroditism and gonochorism in four Caribbean reef gobies. Environ. Biol. Fishes 7(2):137-142. (Ref. 31410) FB-TrophicStrategy-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2006-11-16 00:00:00 2013-11-14 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public personatus http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Occurs in schools near large coral columns and heads. Has been reared in captivity (Ref. 35408). Hovers above bottom in caves and shaded areas in reefs (Ref. 26938). Planktivore (Ref. 57616). Dominici-Arosemena, A. and M. Wolff 2005 Reef fish community structure in Bocas del Toro (Caribbean, Panamá): Gradients in habitat complexity and exposure. Caribbean J. Sci. 41(3):613-637. (Ref. 57616) FB-Size-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-07-24 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=3848 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats 4.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 9710)) 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-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#Habitat 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-3848 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-07-24 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Robbie N. Cada General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3848 reef-associated; marine; depth range 3 - 46 m (Ref. 13442), usually 3 - 46 m (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) 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)