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Main identification features
- dorsal fin and a: front margins dark
- lower gill rakers: 4 long
- pelvics = 1.2-1.8 x pectoral
Elongate, compressed; head compressed; snout with small, blunt projection; eye ~27% of head length; mouth slightly oblique, top jaw reaches to rear of eye; jaw teeth sharp, slightly curved back, in multiple rows; 6-7 rakers on 1st gill arch (4 long rakers on lower limb of that arch); lateral line high, almost to end of tail; dorsal and anal fins continuous with tail; dorsal origin over rear 1/2 of pectoral; 121-148 rays; anal 98-122 rays; tail fin short; anal origin <1 head-length behind dorsal origin; pectoral reaches ~1/2 way to anal, 22-24 rays; pelvic under eye, 2 filaments, ~63% of head length, 1.2-1.8 X length of pectoral; scales not overlapping and not in regular series, at right angles, head scaleless, body entirely covered with small elongate scales, in clusters of ~3-4 or more.
Uniform pale brown to pinkish brown, paler on abdomen and chest; front 2/3 of dorsal and anal fins with narrow dark margins; tail may be dark; upper 1/2 of iris may be dark; no metallic spot on operculum; foregut black.
Size: 26 cm.
Habitat: sandy bays.
Depth: 5-85 m.
The tip of Baja and the lower 3/4 of the Gulf of California.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 85 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=30; Southern limit=21; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-106; Latitudinal range=9; Longitudinal range=9.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Sand & gravel; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 26 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Breder, C.M. Jr., 1936., Scientific results of the second oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1926. Heterosomata to Pediculati from Panama to Lower California., Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collect. Yale Univ., 2(3):1-56.
- Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo . Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
- 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 III. Vertebrados - Parte 2., FAO3:1201-1813.
- Lea, R. N., 1980., Systematics and zoogeogaphy of cusk-eels of the family Ophidiidae, subfamily Ophiddinae, from the eastern pacific ocean., University of Miami:188pp.
- Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
- Villareal-Cavazos, A., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Bermúdez-Almada, B. and Arizpe-Covarrubias, O., 2000., Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: Lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía., Rev. Biol. Trop., 48:413-424.
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