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Serranidae
sand perch
Diplectrum formosum
Fish Reaching Thirty Centimeters in the Atlantic Ocean
sand perch is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Diplectrum
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA, the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas southward to Uruguay. Occurrence in western Caribbean is doubtful (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

