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Click on image to enlarge. © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Dactylagnus mundus 2 thumbnails  •  slide show español Overview Main identification features dorsal fin continuous back speckled dorsal fin and tail fin spotted Head large, deep, bluntly rounded to oblique at front; lower jaw short, broad, without projecting knob; both lips with fleshy flaps, 12-21 on top lip; eyes not stalked, top corner of operculum with fringe of 8-17 slender flaps; dorsal fin continuous, origin usually behind anal fin origin, VIII-XII, 28-34 (usually 31); anal II, 35-41 (usually 38); tail base without notch underneath; pectoral broad-based, long, 14-16 (usually 15) rays; tail fin with 10 branched rays; lateral line continuous, bends under 6th-8th dorsal spine; scales smooth, head and belly scaleless; lateral line scales 48-56, 33-39 on straight part. Color variable; upper body light tan to brownish, flecked, without strongly defined bars or blotches; white below, abdomen and side of head silvery; either 4-5 indistinct bars between eyes and dorsal fin, or spotted, or with dense reticulations; inside mouth pigmented; dorsal and tail and upper pectoral shaded to spotted; juveniles with 12-14 bars on upper back, series of distinct blotches just above midline of side. Size: 16.5 cm. Habitat: beaches and sandy areas. Depth: 0.5-15 m. Central Baja California and the Gulf of California to Panama, and the Galapagos. Attributes Abundance: Common. Cites: Not listed. Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California); 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: 15 m. Depth Range Min: 0.5 m. Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; bony fishes; mobile benthic worms. Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=32; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-79; Latitudinal range=34; Longitudinal range=36. 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: 16.5 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; Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Links to other sites Fishbase Catalog of Fishes Integrated Taxonomic Information System References Dawson, C.E., 1976., Studies on eastern Pacific sand stargazers. 3. Dactylagnus and Myxodagnus with description of a new species and subspecies., Copeia, 1976(1):13-43. Doyle, K. D., 1998., Phylogeny of the sand stargazers (Dactyloscopidae: Blennioidei)., Copeia, 1998:76-96. 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. 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. Gill, T.N., 1863., On the limits and affinity of the family of leptoscopoids., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 15:501-506. Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1883., Catalogue of the fishes collected by Mr. John Xantus at Cape San Lucas, which are now in the United States National Museum, with descriptions of eight new species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 5(1882):353-371. 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. Ricker, K.E., 1959., Mexican shore and pelagic fishes collected from Acapulco to Cape San Lucas during the 1957 cruise of the "Marijean"., Univ. Brit. Columbia Inst. Fish., Mus. Contrib., 3:18pp. 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. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Dactylagnus&speciesname=mundus ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Dactylagnus&speciesname=mundus http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Dactylagnus&speciesname=mundus ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Dactylagnus&speciesname=mundus https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Dactylagnus&speciesname=mundus ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Dactylagnus-mundus.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Dactylagnus Species in    Dactyloscopidae - Classification - Dactyloscopidae Blenniiformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia Dactylagnus mundus Gill , 1863 Giant sand stargazer Add your observation in Fish Watcher Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Dactylagnus mundus   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Dactylagnus mundus Picture by Robertson, R. Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Blenniiformes (Blennies) > Dactyloscopidae (Sand stargazers) Etymology: Dactylagnus: Greek, daktyleys, -eos = a kind of grey mullet + Latin, agnus = pure, chaste (Ref. 45335 ) . More on author: Gill . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; demersal; depth range 0 - 15 m (Ref. 28023 ), usually 0 - 5 m (Ref. 28023 ). Tropical Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Eastern Central Pacific: Pacific coast of Baja California and the northern Gulf of California to Panama. Also the Galapagos Islands. Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ? , range 7 - ? cm Max length : 15.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 28023 ) Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Sand dweller on protected beaches and near-shore sites in less than 5 m. Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Williams, Jeffrey T. | Collaborators Grove, J.S. and R.J. Lavenberg , 1997. The fishes of the Galápagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 863 p. (Ref. 28023 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 25 May 2007 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Harmless Human uses Fisheries: minor commercial FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. 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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.6250   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  5.3   ±0.8 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100). Price category (Ref. 80766 ):   Unknown . 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