© Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Echiodon exsilium Click on map for details about points. 80x5 - 240x3 - 240x4 - 320x1 - 320x2 - 320x3 - 640x1 - 640x2 Set display option above. Click on image to enlarge. © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Echiodon see all kinds   •  1 thumbnail  •  slide show Kinds Echiodon anchipterus, Closefin Pearlfish Echiodon coheni Echiodon cryomargarites, Messmate Echiodon dawsoni, Chain Pearlfish Echiodon dentatus Echiodon drummondii Echiodon exsilium, Nocturnal pearlfish Echiodon neotes Echiodon pegasus Echiodon pukaki Echiodon rendahli, Messmate Fish español Overview Main identification features snout: 2-3 skin flaps fangs at front - both jaws with pectorals ECHIODON PEARLFISHES Slender, short, cylindrical body, long slender tail; dorsal and anal fins low, confluent with tail fin; dorsal origin well behind origin of anal; rear margin of top jaw bone not covered by skin; 1-3 large curved fangs at front of top jaw, 1-2 fangs at tip of lower jaw, these separated by a gap from other teeth, other jaw teeth small, conical, in multiple rows; 2-3 small fleshy flaps at tip of snout above top lip; gill opening extends above mid-side; well developed pectoral fin; anus well behind base of pectoral fin A circumtropical genus except for eastern Atlantic with ~11 species; 1 representative in and endemic to our region. References Cohen , D.M. and Nielsen, J.G., 1978., Guide to the identification of genera of the fish order Ophidiiformes with a tentative classification of the order., NOAA Tech. Rept., \. 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. 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. Markle , D.F. and Olney, J.E., 1990., Systematics of the Pearlfishes (Pisces: Carapidae)., Bull. Mar. Sci., 47:269-410. Rosenblatt, R.H., 1961., A new pearlfish (Family Carapidae) from the Gulf of California., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 74:207-212. 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. Williams, J.T., 1984., Studies on Echiodon (Pisces: Carapidae), with description of two new Indo-Pacific species., Copeia, 1984:410-422. Williams, J.T., 1984., Synopsis and phylogenetic analysis of the pearlfish subfamily Carapinae (Pisces: Carapidae)., Bull. Mar. Sci., 34:386-397. 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 Updated: 2024-04-24 09:20:54 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation