Western Central Atlantic: north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to about Palm Beach on east coast of Florida and in Gulf of Mexico from Fort Myers, Florida, to Mississippi; apparently rare or absent in southern Florida.

Western Central Atlantic: north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to about Palm Beach on east coast of Florida and in Gulf of Mexico from Fort Myers, Florida, to Mississippi; apparently rare or absent in southern Florida.

Gulf of Mexico, North West Atlantic

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Global Range: Continental shelf waters from North Carolina to Mississippi, though apparently rare or absent in southern Florida (Leslie and Stewart 1986).

Western North Atlantic.

Dorsal soft rays (total): 70 - 82; Analsoft rays: 54 - 64

9.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 39355))

Length: 8 cm

Paratype for Etropus cyclosquamus Leslie & Stewart
Catalog Number: USNM 268481
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes
Year Collected: 1977
Locality: North Carolina, United States, Atlantic
Depth (m): 32 to 32
Vessel: Eastward

demersal; marine; depth range 31 - 31 m (Ref. 58018)

benthic

Depth range based on 406 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 86 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 64
  Temperature range (°C): 21.296 - 25.874
  Nitrate (umol/L): 0.289 - 2.951
  Salinity (PPS): 34.478 - 36.284
  Oxygen (ml/l): 4.350 - 5.176
  Phosphate (umol/l): 0.099 - 0.283
  Silicate (umol/l): 0.756 - 1.848

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 0 - 64

Temperature range (°C): 21.296 - 25.874

Nitrate (umol/L): 0.289 - 2.951

Salinity (PPS): 34.478 - 36.284

Oxygen (ml/l): 4.350 - 5.176

Phosphate (umol/l): 0.099 - 0.283

Silicate (umol/l): 0.756 - 1.848
 
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Habitat Type: Marine

Comments: Continental shelf waters; most abundant at depths of 10-30 m (Leslie and Stewart 1986). Eggs and larvae are pelagic offshore (Leslie and Stewart 1986).

Non-Migrant: No. All populations of this species make significant seasonal migrations.

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).

Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.

Spawns apparently primarily in winter (Leslie and Stewart 1986).

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure

Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure

Not Evaluated

Comments: One of nine species in the genus. See Leslie and Stewart (1986) for information on the systematics of Etropus on the U.S. Atlantic coast.