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Overview |
Main identification features
- d: origin over gill opening
- 2 white collars: head and gill opening
- dark above, abruptly pale below
Body elongate, somewhat worm-like in appearance; dorsal and anal fins well developed, confluent around tip of tail; dorsal fin origin above level of gill opening; snout conical with rounded tip, its length about 4.2 in head length; lower jaw slightly shorter than upper; pectoral fins absent; front nostrils tubular; rear nostrils opening downward in upper lip, below front margin of eye; teeth small and pointed in bands; those on roof of mouth in two parallel rows.
Overall greyish brown, whitish ventrally; one collar-like whitish bar across the head behind the mouth and another at level of gill opening and dorsal fin origin.
Size: attains 20 cm.
Habitat: sandy bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m.
Galapagos Islands.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 5 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; octopus/squid/cuttlefish.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=2; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-93; Eastern limit=-90; Latitudinal range=4; Longitudinal range=3.
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 only; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove).
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 20 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Island (s) only; TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Galapagos Islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Lavenberg, R. J., 1988., Chlopsid eels of the eastern pacific with a new species and descriptions of larval forms., Bull. Mar. Sci., 42:253-264.
- Myers , G.S. and Wade, C.B., 1941., Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the Pacific coast of tropical America., Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 9(4):65-111.
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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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