Biology:Three-spine bass

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Short description: Species of fish

Three-spine bass
Scientific classification edit
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

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

Wikidata ☰ Q47231602 entry