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Main identification features
- cirri: eye - 1 branched, nape - 1 pair clusters
- d: xi-xiii, no notch, dark + red margin
- lateral linecomplete, bent
- no canines
- body and fins dark; tail fin membranes yellow
Robust, blunt snout; mouth terminal; lateral line continuous, bent over origin of anal fin, rear section consisting of 18-21 short, 2-pored tubes; no large canines at rear of lower jaw; gill openings wide, membranes not fused to throat; one branched cirrus over eye, 2 clusters of nape cirri; dorsal fin XI-XIII, 16-18, without notch between spinous and soft parts; anal II, 18-20; pelvic I, 4.
Upper body and head dark mottled brown, lower half mottled yellowish brown; dark blotch on upper operculum; dark eye-sized spot behind eye; eye cirrus brown with red tip; dorsal brown with narrow red margin; tail - rays purplish brown, membranes yellowish; anal - yellow brown inner half, dark brown outer half; pelvic tan; pectoral base and rays brown, membranes yellowish.
Size: 27 cm.
Habitat: rocky shores.
Depth: 0-10 m.
Panama to Chile; probably only as a vagrant in our region.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: benthic microalgae; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=8; Southern limit=-33; Western limit=-82; Eastern limit=-70; Latitudinal range=41; Longitudinal range=12.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: TEP non-endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 27 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Peruvian province, primarily; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
- 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.
- Hildebrand, S.F., 1946., A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 189:1-530.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
- Steindachner, F., 1876., Ichthyologische Beiträge (V). I. Zur Fischfauna von Panama, Acapulco und Mazatlan., Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 74:49-240.
- Williams, J.T., 1990., Phylogenetic relationships and revision of the blenniid fish genus Scartichthys., Smithsonian Contrib. Zool., 492:1-30.
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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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