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Main identification features
- small eye
- back: 5-7 saddles;fins clear
- dorsal fin and a: joined to c
- lower gill rakers: 7-8
- lower lateral lineends ~19 pores before its line light organs
- c: 12
Eye small; 1 solid spine on opercle; no subopercular spines;7-8 rakers on lower limb of first gill arch; no scales; teeth like canines; 4 lateral lines on body with light organs; dorsal and anal fins broadly joined to tail; first dorsal fin 2 solid spines, separate from second dorsal fin; second dorsal 38-40 rays; anal rays 35-38; lower lateral line with ~19 pores behind same line of light organs; pectoral round, 15-16 rays; 12 tail rays.
Pale yellowish brown above, fading to greyish white below; 5-7 grey-brown saddles on back, 1 across nape, & 1 across rear of head & operculum; dark half moon shaped blotch under eye; a pale blotch on preopercle; dorsal, anal and tail fins very pale translucent yellow.
Size: 8.4 cm.
Habitat: sand and mud bottoms.
Depth: 5-10 m.
Panama to Colombia.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=9; Southern limit=4; Western limit=-81; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=5; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Benthic; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Estuary; Mud; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 8.4 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Panamic province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
- Walker , H.J. and Rosenblatt, R.H., 1988., Pacific toadfishes of the genus Porichthys (Batrachoididae) with descriptions of three new species., Copeia, 1988:887-904.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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