Three-spine bass
Appearance
Three-spine bass | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Acropomatiformes |
Family: | Acropomatidae |
Genus: | Caraibops Schwarzhans & Prokofiev, 2017 |
Species: | C. trispinosus
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Binomial name | |
Caraibops trispinosus | |
Synonyms | |
Synagrops trispinosus Mochizuki & Sano, 1984 |
The three-spine bass (Caraibops trispinosus) is a species of ray-finned fish, a lanternbelly from the family Acropomatidae. It is a deep water species which is found in the western Atlantic from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Surinam.[1] This fish was first formally described in 1984 as Synagrops trispinosus but in 2017 was placed in the monotypic genus Caraibops.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Caraibops trispinosus". FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Synagrops trispinosus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 February 2020.