Main identification features
- short wide flap over eye
- body: brown + pale blotches
- pectoral: 17-18
Axelrod's reef-bass
Robust, compressed body; head bluntly rounded profile; upper edge of eye with short, broad-based flap; mouth slightly oblique, reaches past rear of eye; dense band of simple teeth on each jaw; preoperculum with thick spine at upper angel, no serrations; gill opening restricted above by fusion of operculum to body, a flap extending back from upper operculum to beyond pectoral base; 15 rakers on 1st gill arch; dorsal VII(rarely VI),21-22, spines low, fin base long, end of soft part rounded; anal III,17-18, long base, end of soft part rounded; pectoral 17-18 rays, rounded; pelvic I,5, inserted under pectoral base; lateral line in 2 parts, with 35-36 & 18-23 scales on front and rear sections; scales smooth on head & front body, grading into rough posteriorly; inner 1/2s of dorsal, anal & pectoral covered with scales.
Brown overall, tan below; side of body with numerous large pale brown blotches; a large, prominent ocellated dark blotch on upper operculum; 2 dark lines run back and from lower half of eye across cheek; dorsal, tail, anal, and pelvic fins dark; pectorals translucent brown; juvenile uniformly brown body, tan head, diagonal white bar across cheek, vertical white bar under eye
Size: 8.5 cm.
Habitat: coral reef, cryptic.
Depth: 10-100 m.
Endemic to Clipperton.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 100 m.
Depth Range Min: 10 m.
Diet: bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=11; Southern limit=11; Western limit=-110; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=1.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 8.5 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Clipperton Island endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Allen , G.R. and Robertson, D.R., 1995., 'Pseudogramma axelrodi', A new Species of Serranid Fish from the Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean., Tropical Fish Hobbyist, 44:72-75.
- Allen , G.R. and Robertson, D.R., 1997., An Annotated Checklist of the fishes of Clipperton Atoll, Tropical Eastern Pacific., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 45:813-843.
- Robertson , D.R. and Allen, G.A., 1996., Zoogeography of the shorefish fauna of Clipperton Atoll., Coral Reefs, 15:121-131.
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