Campeche Bank Hamlet

Hypoplectrus espinosai

Nine Point Eight Centimeters Seabass from Mexican Waters

Campeche Bank Hamlet is known around West Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 9.8 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Serranidae
Genus: Hypoplectrus
Maximum length: 9.8 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: West Atlantic: southern Gulf of Mexico, Mexico (Campeche Bank). It could be considered of Least Concern given the remoteness of its geographic distribution in coral reefs from the cays of Campeche Bank (which is more than 140 km from the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula).

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