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Bellator loxias D. S. Jordan, 1897
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Bellator loxias
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Bellator loxias

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Bellator loxias
© Copyright Ross Robertson, 2006 · 12
Bellator loxias
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Overview
Main identification features
  • snout: plates very short
  • d: 1st spine longest; red and white + black spot
  • flank - row yellow and orange bars
Pectoral fins short, reaching origin of anal fin; spiny projections at front of snout very short; crest at end of preopercle ends in single spine; first dorsal -1st spine longest, front edge serrated, 11 spines; second dorsal 11-12 rays; anal 11-12 (usually 11) rays; pectoral 11-12 rays; breast and belly scaly; 49-55 lateral line scales.

Red brown above, white below, yellow and red diagonal bars on upper sides; first dorsal clear, with brown dots and a large dark spot between 4th and 5th spines; second dorsal 2-3 dusky stripes; 3 dark chevron bars on tail; pectoral red.

Size: 15 cm.

Habitat: sand and mud bottoms.

Depth: 20-191 m.

Southern Baja and SW and NE Gulf of California to Peru, the Revillagigedos, Cocos Island and Galapagos.


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); South Temperate (Peruvian Province ); North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California).
Depth Range Max: 191 m.
Depth Range Min: 20 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic worms; octopus/squid/cuttlefish; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=30; Southern limit=-6; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=36; Longitudinal range=37.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; 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: 15 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); TEP endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Breder, C.M. Jr., 1936., Scientific results of the second oceanographic expedition of the "Pawnee" 1926. Heterosomata to Pediculati from Panama to Lower California., Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Collect. Yale Univ., 2(3):1-56.
  • Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
  • De la Cruz , J. , Galvan , F. , Abitia , L. A. , Rodriguez , J. and Gutierrez, F. J., 1994., Lista sistematica de los peces marinos de Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Systematic List of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico)., Ciencias Marinas, 20:17-31.
  • 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.
  • Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398.
  • Gilbert, C.H., 1897., Descriptions of twenty-two new species of fishes collected by the steamer Albatross, of the United States Fish Commission., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 19:437-457.
  • Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2.
  • 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.
  • Madrid Vera , J. , Ruíz Luna , A. and Rosado Bravo, I., 1998., Peces de la plataforma continental de Michoacán y sus relaciones regionales en el Pacífico mexicano., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 42(2):267-276.
  • Meek , S.E. and Hildebrand, S.F., 1928., The marine fishes of Panama. Part III., Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser. Publ., XV:709-1045.
  • Miller , G.C. and Richards, W.J., 1991., Revision of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific genus Bellator (Pisces:Triglidae)., Bull. Mar. Sci., 48(3):635-656.
  • Richards , W. J. and McCosker, J. E., 1998., A new species of the genus Bellator (Pisces: Triglidae), with comments on the trigloids of the Galápagos Islands., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 111:936-941.
  • Teague, G. W., 1951., The sea-robins of America a revision of the triglid fishes of the genus Prionotus., Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo, 3:1-59.
  • Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224.
  • 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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