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Main identification features
- center body large ocellus
Disc rounded; large electric organ beside each eye; 2 similar sized dorsal fins; tips of dorsal and tail fins rounded; front margin of pelvic fins covered by pectoral fins; nostril of each side divided into two separate holes; teeth entirely enclosed when mouth is closed.
Light brown, usually with profuse leopard-like spotting and diffuse dark cross bars, also a large "bulls-eye" ocellated marking at center of disc; one specimen we collected from Panama was plain brown except for a large black spot at the center of its disc.
Grows to about 25 cm total length.
Inhabits sandy or rubble bottoms.
Depth: 0-94 m.
Southern Baja and the lower 3/4 of the Gulf of California to northern Peru, Malpelo.
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: 94 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; octopus/squid/cuttlefish; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=31; Southern limit=-4; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=35; Longitudinal range=37.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; Sand & gravel; Soft bottom only; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom).
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 25 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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