The spot-tail golden bass: A new fish species from deep reefs of the southern Caribbean

Monday, May 19, 2014 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have described a new species of small coral reef sea bass from underexplored deep-reef depths of Curaçao, southern Caribbean. With predominantly yellow body and fins, the new species, Liopropoma santi, more closely resembles the other two 'golden basses' found together with it at Curaçao, L. aberrans and L. olneyi, than the striped species that occur on shallower reefs.

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