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Bascanichthys panamensis Meek and Hildebrand, 1923
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Bascanichthys panamensis
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Bascanichthys panamensis

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Bascanichthys panamensis
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Bascanichthys panamensis
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Overview
Main identification features
  • body light brown; head white, mottled brown
  • white d
  • tail less than 1/2 total length
  • head pores in white spots
Tail tip a hard finless point; body moderately robust, the trunk long, but tail relatively short (about 1.3-1.4 in head and trunk); dorsal and anal fins low; dorsal fin origin well in front of gill opening, but slightly closer to gill opening than to snout tip; pectoral fin present, but very tiny; snout short and blunt, its underside grooved; teeth of jaws small and conical, in single rows.

Light brown; whitish dorsal fin; head largely whitish with brown markings; lateral line pores on head in white spots.

Size: to at least 76 cm.

Habitat: sandy bottoms.

Depth: 0-30 m.

Lower Baja California and the central eastern 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: 30 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=26; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-112; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=18; Longitudinal range=34.
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); Estuary.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 76 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; 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.
  • Meek , S.E. and Hildebrand, S.F., 1923., The marine fishes of Panama. Part I., Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. Publ., XV:1-330.

Acknowledgements

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