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Main identification features
- eyes: dark barbody: ~10 dark saddles
- d: ii + i - (i+i) + viii-xii
- lower lip - 4 flaps
Lower jaw not fleshy & not protruding; top lip without skin flaps, lower lip with 4 skin flaps; dorsal fin: a 2-spine finlet with origin on nape followed by 1-2 free spines then the main fin, II + I (or I + I) + IX-XI, 29-33; anal II, 33-37; pectoral 11-13 (usually 12) rays; 10 principal segmented tail fin rays; lateral line bends down under dorsal fin elements 18-22; lateral line scales 49-57, 22-26 on straight part; underbelly behind pelvic fins scaleless.
A dark bar through the eyes; 8-10 dark bars along top of back; remainder of body pale to lightly speckled; fins pale.
Size: 6 cm.
Habitat: sandy bottoms inshore & offshore.
Depth: 3-55 m.
Central to southern 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).
Depth Range Max: 55 m.
Depth Range Min: 3 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; bony fishes; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=30; Southern limit=24; Western limit=-114; Eastern limit=-110; Latitudinal range=6; Longitudinal range=4.
Egg Type: Benthic; 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: 6 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Continent only; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Cortez province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Dawson, C.E., 1977., Studies on eastern Pacific sand stargazers (Pisces: Dactyloscopidae). 4. Gillellus, Sindoscopus new genus, and Heteristius with description of new species., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 41(2):125-160.
- 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.
- Gilbert, C.H., 1892., Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross." 22. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of fishes collected in 1888 and 1889, principally among the Santa Barbara Islands and in the Gulf of California., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 14:539-566.
- 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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