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Main identification features
- ll: 4 front, 2 rear, no light organs
- body ~4 dark saddles
- edge d: ~5 spots c: dark outer 1/2
- opercle: 1 large spine
Monkfish
Body elongate, depressed at front, compressed at rear; head broad, depressed; eye small; mouth strongly oblique; teeth pointed, larger on top jaw, 2 rows at front, 1 row on sides; lower jaw projecting; vomer with 2 canines on each side; anterior body with 4 lateral lines, top and bottom lines extending along bases of dorsal and anal fins; no light organs; opercle with large solid spine; first dorsal fin with 2 solid spines, well separated from second dorsal; second dorsal with long base, 31-33 rays; anal fin with long base, 30-32 rays; pectoral base broad, about as long as head, pointed, 19-20 rays; tail fin not joined to dorsal and anal; tail base slender; no scales.
Brownish above, pale to silvery on side and below; head brown above; back with 4-5 brown saddles, distinct in juveniles, disappearing with age; dorsal fin pale, 4-6 conspicuous dark spots on outer half; tail fin pale at base, outer half dark; anal fin pale, 1-2 dark blotches on rear margin; pectoral pale, base brownish in juveniles, with brown bars in adults.
Size: 22 cm.
Habitat: soft bottoms.
Depth: 1-30 m.
Temperate; Ecuador to Peru.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ).
Depth Range Max: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 1 m.
Diet: mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=-3; Southern limit=-43; Western limit=-82; Eastern limit=-70; Latitudinal range=40; Longitudinal range=12.
Egg Type: Benthic; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: TEP non-endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 22 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Peruvian province, primarily; Continent only; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
- Cuvier , G. and Valenciennes, A., 1847., Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvieme. Suite du livre dix-neuvieme. Brochets ou Lucioides. Livre vingtieme. De quelques familles de Malacopterygiens, intermediaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes., Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, 19:i-xix + 1-544 + 6pp.
- Cuvier, G., Valenciennes, A., 1837., Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome douzième. Suite du livre quatorzième. Gobioïdes. Livre quinzième. Acanthoptérygiens à pectorales pédiculées., Histoire Naturelle Des Poissons, 12:i-xxiv + 1-507.
- Hildebrand, S.F., 1946., A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 189:1-530.
- Hubbs , C.L and Schultz, L.P., 1939., A revision of the toadfishes referred to Porichthys and related genera., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 86(3060):473-496.
- Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
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