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Main identification features
- dorsal fin origin just before gill opening
- lateral line arched between pores
- v patch of teeth exposed under snout
- lower jaw tip ends well behind front nostril
Very elongate, body depth at anus 1.3% of total length; head and body 51% of total length; snout rounded, conical when viewed from above, overhanging, extends well before lower jaw, which ends well behind front nostrils; front nostril a short tube near tip of snout, rear nostril inside mouth just before eye, in a short tube with a front flap; eye small, over center of upper jaw; teeth conical, pointed, V shaped patch of upper central front teeth exposed under overhanging snout when mouth is closed; gill openings crescent shaped, vertical, low on sides, widely separated under throat; gill pouch expanded; dorsal and anal fins forming ridges below the skin; dorsal fin origin on head, less than a snout length before gill opening; no pectorals; tip of tail finless, blunt and fleshy; dorsal and anal fin rays join tail fin rays underneath skin of tail; skin with papillae on front of head and tip of tail; lateral line from head to near tip of tail, line arches upward between each pore; 189 vertebrae.
Color in life pink, finely speckled with black dots; grey with a white dorsal fin ridge when preserved.
Length 51cm.
Depth 0-3m.
Habitat: Intertidal sand flat.
Known only from the holotype collected at Puertocitos, in the NE Gulf of California.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California).
Depth Range Max: 200 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=30; Southern limit=30; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-115; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=1.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: TEP non-endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Sand & gravel; Beach; Soft bottom only; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove).
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; In & Offshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 51 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Brackish.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- 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.
- McCosker , J. E. and Böhlke, J. E., 1984., A review of the snake eel genera Gordiichthys and Ethadophis, with descriptions of new species and comments on related atlantic bascanichthyins (Pisces: Ophichthidae)., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 136:32-44.
- Rosenblatt , R.H. and McCosker, J.E., 1970., A key to the genera of the ophichthid eels, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species from the eastern Pacific., Pac. Sci., 24:494-505.
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I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page.
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