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Main identification features
- snout: 2 smooth ridges
- male: dorsal fin - blue lines + white spots
- male: dark, white back, dense brown spots
- female: flank: -orange blotches, dorsal fin - ocellus
Dorsal rays XXII, 13-14, total dorsal elements 35-36; anal rays II, 23-24; pectoral rays 14-15; spines absent on top of head; two longitudinal bony ridges on snout, smooth and not broken into tubercles; spiny dorsal fin strongly elevated and sail-like in males, first spine without skin flaps, only first spine elevated (about twice as long as second spine) in females; cirrus above eye often with filamentous branches, but may also be simple, or with tiny end branches.
Males dark brown with pronounced white back; back with numerous small brown spots; a row of white spots and streaks along the flank; dorsal fin with oblique blue lines and blue and white spots. Females overall whitish; upper body and head with numerous small brown spots; a midlateral row of rectangular orange-centered brown blotches; head and belly with orange bars and spots.
Size: grows to 4.2 cm.
Inhabits empty mollusc tubes on sand-rubble bottoms.
Depth: 5-30 m.
Isla del Coco and Costa Rica to Colombia.
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: zooplankton.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=10; Southern limit=3; Western limit=-88; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=7; Longitudinal range=10.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore; Planktivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Sand & gravel; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Barnacles & worm tubes.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 4.2 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); TEP endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
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.
- Hastings, P.A., 2000., Biogeography of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: distribution and phylogeny of chaenopsid fishes., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 128:319-335.
- Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1898., The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:2183-3136.
- Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1882., List of Fishes now in the Museum of Yale College, Collected by Prof. Frank H. Bradley, at Panama, with Descriptions of Three New Species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 5:620-632.
- Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1883., List of the fishes now in the museum of Yale College, collected by Prof. Frank H. Bradley at panama, with descriptions of three new species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 5(1882):620-632.
- Meek , S.E. and Hildebrand, S.F., 1928., The marine fishes of Panama. Part III., Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. Publ., XV:709-1045.
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