SHORTNOSE GREENEYE
Chlorophthalmus agassizi
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Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom. Catch data indicate a schooling habit. Feeds mainly on bottom-living invertebrates. Also known to feed on pelagic crustaceans like euphausiids, decapods and mysids (Ref. 27637). A hermaphroditic species. Marketed fresh and sometimes made into fishmeal (Ref. 6688). Young are pelagic, living near the surface, the adults are demersal, living between 50 and 1000 m depth (Ref. 47377).
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Arius latiscutatus Günther, 1864
Rough-head sea catfish |
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Jenkinsia majua Whitehead, 1963
Little-eye round herring |
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Lutjanus mahogoni (Cuvier, 1828)
Mahogany snapper |
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Belodontichthys dinema (Bleeker, 1851) |
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Apogon catalai Fourmanoir, 1973 |