Three-spine bass
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]
| Three-spine bass | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Acropomatidae |
| Genus: | Caraibops Schwarzhans & Prokofiev, 2017 |
| Species: | C. trispinosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Caraibops trispinosus (Mochizuki and Sano, 1984) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Synagrops trispinosus Mochizuki & Sano, 1984 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Caraibops trispinosus" in 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.
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