Amblycirrhitus pinos
Redspotted Hawkfish
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri)
Cirrhitidae (Hawkfishes)
Amblycirrhitus
Amblycirrhitus pinos (Redspotted Hawkfish)
Description
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Characters
Acute snout, tuft of cirri behind each dorsal fin spine, scaled interorbital region, dorsal profile from snout to eye nearly straight, mouth slightly oblique, upper jaw slightly overhangs lower jaw, maxilla extends to center of pupil, preopercular margin finely serrated and evenly rounded, palatine teeth present, gill rakers on first arch 4 or 5 on upper limb and 9 to 11 on lower limb, measurements (% SL): head length 33%–36%, snout length 9%–10%, eye diameter 7%–8%, upper jaw length 11%–12%, pectoral fin length 34%–40%, pelvic fin length 17%–22%, body depth 35%–38%, pectoral fin with 9 upper rays united by membrane and 5 lower rays thickened and connected by membranes only along medial half, dorsal fin with 10 spines and 11 rays, membrane deeply incised between spines, anal fin with 6 rays, lateral line scales 41 to 44, scales between base of spinous dorsal fin and lateral line 4, scales between anal fin base and lateral line 9, cheek with four or five rows of scales
Olive with five broad white bars, last bar on caudal fin base, first three and fifth bars bisected by yellowish brown bars, large black spot on base of rayed section of dorsal fin, last two white bars separated by a black ring on caudal peduncle, head, anterior part of body, and dorsal fin covered with small orangish red spots
Distribution
Western Atlantic from southern Florida and Bermuda to northern South America, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles
In the Gulf of Mexico known from southwestern Florida, the Flower Garden Banks, and Yucatán
Habitat Associations
Coral reefs and rocky substrates, to a depth of 45 m
Coral reefs and rocky substrates
Biology
Maximum known size is 95 mm TL
Moderately common in rocky areas and among rubble, often in crevices and shallow caves. Usually lies at rest on the substrate (Ref. 9626). Feeds primarily on small crustaceans, particularly copepods, shrimps and shrimp larvae, crabs and crab larvae as well as polychaetes (Ref. 7510).
Reproductive mode: protogyny; fertilization: external; nonguarders. Pelagic spawner. Further histological evidence is needed to establish protogyny (Ref. 103751).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2014-01-09. Resilience: High.
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial.
References
Böhlke and Chaplin 1968
Bright and Cashman 1974
Randall 1986a
Randall 1996
Randall 2002b
Hoese and Moore 1977
Hoese and Moore 1998
Robins and Ray 1986
Smith 1997
Randall, J.E. (1967) Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. Miami 5:665-847.
Edwards, A. (1990) Fish and fisheries of Saint Helena Island. Centre for Tropical Coastal Management Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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.
Randall, J.E. (1990) Cirrhitidae. p. 851-852. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.
Randall, J.E. (1996) Caribbean reef fishes. Third Edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3nd ed. 368 p.
Sadovy, Y. and T.J. Donaldson (1995) Sexual pattern of Neocirrhites armatus (Cirrhitidae) with notes on other hawkfish species. Environ. Biol. Fishes 42(2):143-150.
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