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Gobiesox canidens (Briggs, 1951)
SOCORRO CLINGFISH
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Gobiesox canidens
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Gobiesox canidens

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Overview
Main identification features
  • top lip: large papillae
  • black spot front d
  • body and fins dark
  • lower jaw: large canines
Body depressed; head large, broad, depressed; snout with rounded profile; a large fleshy pad with free rear edge at base of pectoral fin; rear nostril over front edge of eye, front nostril with a large flap that has 2 large, wide lobes; teeth on lower jaw in 2 rows, outer row larger, front 4 pairs 3-pointed, followed by row of canines, 2nd and 3rd large; well developed lobe-like papillae on head and along margin of top lip, none on center of snout; anus ~midway between anal fin origin and sucker; pectoral 21-22 rays; sucker with 2 widely separated central patches of papillae, with 9-10 rows of papillae across front section; dorsal short, 10-13 rays; anal 8-9 rays; tail 10 rays.

(Preserved fish) Top and sides uniform dark blackish brown; dorsal, anal and tail fins same color, with clear margins; dorsal with distinct black spot at front edge; pectorals clear, with small brown spots along each ray.

Size: 4.9 cm.

Habitat: rocky shores.

Depth: 0-10 m?.

Endemic to the Revillagigedos Islands.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos).
Depth Range Max: 10 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=20; Southern limit=19; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-111; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=4.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 4.9 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s) only; Island (s); TEP endemic; TEP oceanic island (s) endemic; Revillagigedos Islands endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Marine Only.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Briggs, J.C., 1951., A review of the clingfishes (Gobiesocidae) of the Eastern Pacific with descriptions of new species., Proceedings of the California Zoological Club, 1:57-108.
  • Briggs, J.C., 1955., A monograph of the clingfishes (Order Xenopterygii)., Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., 6:1-224.
  • Castro-Aguirre, J.L. and Balart, E.F., 2002., La ictiofauna de las islas Revillagigedos y sus relaciones zoogeograficas, con comentarios acerca de su origen y evolucion. En: Lozano-Vilano, M. L. (Ed.). Libro Jubilar en Honor al Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León:153-170.
  • Ricker, K.E., 1959., Fishes collected from the Revillagigedo Islands during the 1954-1958 cruises of the "Marijean."., Univ. Brit. Columbia Inst. Fish., Mus. Contrib., 4:10pp.
  • Walker, B. W. and Baldwin, W. J., 1964., Provisional check list of fishes of the Revillagigedo islands., 18 pp.

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