Three-spine bass

The three-spine bass (Caraibops trispinosus) is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Synagropidae. It is a deep water species which is found in the western Atlantic from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Surinam.^[1] This fish was first formally described in 1984 as Synagrops trispinosus but in 2017 was placed in the monotypic genus Caraibops.^[2]

Three-spine bass
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acropomatiformes
Family:	Synagropidae
Genus:	Caraibops Schwarzhans & Prokofiev, 2017
Species:	C. trispinosus
Binomial name
Caraibops trispinosus (Mochizuki and Sano, 1984)
Synonyms
Synagrops trispinosus Mochizuki & Sano, 1984