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Main identification features
- 2 -3 alternating rows large spots
- front dorsal fin black
- a: black
Dorsal rays 135-163; anal rays 112-139; pectoral rays 25-28; dorsal and anal fins confluent, tail rounded; pelvic fins below eye, each consisting of two filamentous rays joined basally; head scaleless; body scales smooth, elongate or eliptical in shape, at oblique angles to each other; body elongate and compressed, the greatest depth 6.8-7.2 in standard length.
Generally grey with 3 series of alternating dark brown spots along upper body; outer edge of front part of dorsal fin black; anal fin blackish.
Size: grows to at least 20 cm.
Habitat: sand and mud bottoms at 18-232 m.
Depth: 20-230 m.
The tip of Baja and the mouth of the Gulf of California to Panama.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 230 m.
Depth Range Min: 20 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes; phytoplankton.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=25; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-111; Eastern limit=-79; Latitudinal range=17; Longitudinal range=32.
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: Continent; Continent only; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) 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 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.
- Lea, R. N., 1997., A new and unique ophidiine cusk-eel from the panamic region of the eastern north pacific., Bull. Mar. Sci., 60:960-965.
- 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.
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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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