Liopropoma santi

Liopropoma santi, the spot-tail golden bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and classified within the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae.

It has been collected from deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean; it is the deepest occurring Liopropoma species in the Atlantic Ocean.

The project was funded by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.

[5] The lower part of the fish body is of a colour ranging from pale yellow to white.

[4] Of all the species of Liopropoma, L. santi resides at the deepest levels of the reef, having been sighted only between 182 and 241 metres (597 and 791 ft).