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Bascanichthys bascanoides Osburn and Nichols, 1916
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Bascanichthys bascanoides
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Bascanichthys bascanoides

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Overview
Main identification features
  • dark above, pale below
  • fins pale;pale line along dorsal fin base
  • tail ~1/2 total length
  • tip lower jaw behind base front nostril
  • pectoral: fin length = base length
Head, trunk & tail rounded; eye small (~7% of head length); tip of lower jaw behind base of front nostril; gill openings vertical, length = snout, distance between bases of openings slightly< opening length; pectoral fin a small, narrow-based skin flap opposite upper half of gill opening, length of pectoral fin = width of its base; snout short, blunt, grooved on underside; jaw teeth small, conical, in 1 row; dorsal and anal fins low; dorsal origin midway between gill opening & eye; front nostril tubular; head and trunk about equal to tail length; tip of tail finless, hard, pointed.

(Preserved fish) Red-brown above, fading to yellowish on belly; snout & lower jaw dusky; dorsal & anal pale, a pale streak along entire base of dorsal fin; lateral line pores on head not in white spots.

Size: 77 cm.

Habitat: sandy bottoms.

Depth: 0-20 m.

Southern Baja and the central Gulf of California; Cocos Island.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 20 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=28; Southern limit=6; Western limit=-112; Eastern limit=-87; Latitudinal range=22; Longitudinal range=25.
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 (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Estuary.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 77 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); TEP endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Marine; Brackish.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26.
  • 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.
  • Osburn , R. C. and Nichols, J. T., 1916., Shore Fishes Collected by the 'Albatross' Expedition in Lower California with Descriptions of New Species., Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 35:139-181.

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