Threadnose Bass

Choranthias tenuis, the threadnose bass, is a species of ray-finned fish within the family Anthiadidae. Its distribution covers the western Atlantic near areas such as Bermuda, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Venezuela, Guyana, southeastern Gulf of Mexico, Yucatán, Puerto Rico, and the southern Caribbean, where it lives in subtropical waters over hard bottoms with large rocks that allow for micro habitats. The depths the species occurs is 55 to 915 metres (180 to 3,000 ft), however individuals are more commonly found at depths less than 150 metres (490…

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Choranthias tenuis (Nichols, 1920), es la única especie del género Choranthias. Es un pez óseo marino perteneciente a la familia Serranidae y a la subfamilia Anthiinae. Distribución Procede del Océano Atlántico, donde está habita fondos rocosos, por lo general entre los 55 y los 150 m de profundidad.